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Hsuan-chwang does not give the name of this murderer; see in Julien's "Vie et Voyages de Hiouen-thsang," p. 125, "a heretical Brahman killed a woman and calumniated Buddha." See also the fuller account in Beal's "Records of Western Countries," pp. 7, 8, where the murder is committed by several Brahmacharins. But the text cannot be so construed. See the story about her, M. B., pp. 275-277.
Here was the old city of king Bimbisara; from east to west about five or six le, and from north to south seven or eight. Called by Hsuan-chwang Indra-sila-guha, or "The cavern of Indra." It has been identified with a hill near the village of Giryek, on the bank of the Panchana river, about thirty-six miles from Gaya.
Confounded, according to Eitel, even by Hsuan-chwang, with the Hiranyavati, which flows past the city on the south. A Brahman of Benares, said to have been 120 years old, who came to learn from Buddha the very night he died.
The monks said it was the most precious thing in their possession, and that if they opened it, as I begged them to do, there would be a convulsion that would destroy the whole establishment. See E. H., p. 166. The name of the province of Behar was given to it in consequence of its many viharas. According to the characters, "square, round, four inches." Hsuan-chwang says it was twelve inches round.
With this, in front of the rock cavern, he chanted the Surangama Sutra, remained there over the night, and then returned towards the New City. See chap. xxviii, note 1. See chap. xxv, note 9. Pisuna is a name given to Mara, and signifies "sinful lust." See M. B., p. 320. And, as described by Hsuan-chwang, fourteen or fifteen cubits high, and thirty paces round. See Mr.
Fa-Hsien found him here worshipped by followers of the mahayana school; but Hsuan-chwang connects his worship with the yogachara or tantra-magic school. The mahayana school regard him as the apotheosis of perfect wisdom. His most common titles are Mahamati, "Great wisdom," and Kumara-raja, "King of teaching, with a thousand arms and a hundred alms-bowls."
A grand monastery was subsequently built at it, famous by the residence for five years of Hsuan-chwang. See chap. xvi, note 11. There is some doubt as to the statement that Nala was his birthplace. The city of "Royal Palaces;" "the residence of the Magadha kings from Bimbisara to Asoka, the first metropolis of Buddhism, at the foot of the Gridhrakuta mountains.
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