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a road which for a short distance followed a devious course to the west 
and then went up to the western Chauk and Jain quarters. The gate Y 
was also in the south, and seems to have consisted of two arches in the 
wall. The traces of the centre pillar and of the side walls are still 
clearly marked. I have proved by excavation that there was a broad 
street which ran from the sacred Buddhist and royal quarters in the city 
down through this gate towards Ora Jhar. I have called it 1 Broad 
Street ’ in the maps. The gate Z was a large opening and seems to have 
been the main entrance to the east of the city. It probably opened on a 
road leading towards the spot now marked by the village Dewaria. 
The name is from the Sanscrit dvar a gate, and here probably passed 
the road leading to this gate of the city. I shall now take up seriatim 
the various places which the records of the Chinese pilgrims and other 
authorities would induce us to look for outside Set (the Jetavana) and 
Mahet (the city). 
Lying far east from the Jetavana we have to find the stupa and 
vihara which mark the spot where Tathagata (Buddha) defeated 
the heretics and acceded to Yisakha’s request. I believe this to be 
the ruins named Baghaha Bari. I opened the mound and found the 
lines of cells on the south, and in the middle there was a build¬ 
ing such as would be occupied by a superior, or which might be a 
small lecture-liall or a chamber for objects of veneration. I was unable 
to continue my exploration to the whole mound for two reasons. There 
is a village pathway crosses the mound, and south-east of it there 
was a crop growing, which I could not disturb. The name is, I 
believe, a corruption of Bhagava vihara, the vihara of Bhagava, a name 
applied to Buddha as a title of respect. The word ‘ bdri ’ a ‘ garden ’ 
or, as it is often pronounced in these parts bhari, is obviously the same 
as the Sanscrit and Pali vihara , a pleasure-ground, a garden, a place of 
perambulation round a monastic building. Baghaha Bari is probably 
Yisakha’s Purvarama, as it lies east of the Jetavana. The pilgrim 
notes it was in strict dependence on the Sangharama (of the Jetavana). 
This points to its being a nunnery, for all establishments of professed 
female followers of Buddha were in strict subordination to the nearest 
monastery. 
To the south of this place is a large area very much raised, in 
which are brick ruins visible on the outskirts of the fields and in the 
earth inside them. I could not explore here as I should have had to 
remove the crops of some poor cultivators : but I satisfied myself 
that there are at least three large buildings buried here. The position 
of this area marks it out as the site of (1) the stupas which were raised 
where Buddha sat and checked Yirudhaka, when leaving the city to go 
