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priests Selou and Chhushen should be burnt alive. The two Indian Pandits 
were extolled to the skies. The king with his ministers and a large number 
of subjects embraced Buddhism. 
On this occasion of the triumph of Buddhism over the To-u-se religion, 
the king uttered the following verses : 
In a fox are not to be found the virtues of a lion, 
The torch cannot enlighten like the sun or moon, 
A lake cannot encompass the earth like the boundless main, 
The splendour of Sumeru is not to be seen in a mountain, 
The blessed clouds of religion encompassing the world 
Will rain upon and quicken the seed of universal good; 
All that existed not before, will now appear. 
From all quarters, ye moving beings, draw near the Victor (Jina) ! 
In the great fortress of He-nan-fu, the king erected seven temples, of 
which the temple of Peimassi 7 was the principal one. He also established 
three convents for the use of nuns. The king himself took the vows 
of an Upasaka (a lay devotee). More than a thousand men, headed by the 
ministers of State, entered monkhood. Once the king addressed the Indian 
g a cres thus,—“Venerable Fathers, within the environs of my kingdom, 
is there no saintly Being residing for the permanent good and protection 
of all living beings”? Matana replied: “Yes, Arya * Man jusri dwells in 
Kevo-tse-na on the top of Panchagra parvata.” He then gave an account 
of Manjusri’s chosen land, which, accompanied by his friend Pandit Bharana 
he now prepared to find out. After much search he reached the enchanted 
s pot which he distinguished from others by his saintly knowledge. He 
then reported it to the king—“ During the days of Buddha Kasyapa there 
lived a king of the name of Asvakala who, with the help of demons, 
constructed 81,000 chaityas, one of which exists on Kevo-tse-na con¬ 
taining a fragment of the genuine relics of Kasyapa Buddha.” The Em¬ 
peror, in order to preserve the ancient chaitya, built a lofty temple over it 
which is now called by the name Tabotha clihorten. Near it he erected 
the great monastery of Shen-thun-su. Among many other religious edifices 
that were built by this pious monarch, one is the “ white chhorten” of 
Pekin (Pechin). The monastic establishment of Ilevo-tse-na consisted of 
620 monks and 230 nuns. The learned Arhat prepared an abridgement of 
the Idinayana Aphorisms and Sutrantas in the language of China. This 
work, the first Buddhist work in Chinese, is extant to the present day. 
Pandit Bharana also translated the five Sutrantas, such as Dasa-Bhumi &c. 
but unfortunately they are lost. In course of time Arhat Matanga and 
Pandit Bharana died. JMindhi’s successor invited several other Indian 
Pandits. Among the first batch Arya-kala, Sthavira-Chilukaksha, Sramana 
Suvinaya, and five other Pandits were well-known. In the second batch 
7 That is, ‘ the Lord of the white elephant.’ 
