The vihara stands in a
square of thirty paces, and though heaven should shake and earth be
rent, this place would not move.
Going on, north from this, for a yojana, Fa-hien arrived at the capital
of Nagara, the place where the Bodhisattva once purchased with money
five stalks of flowers, as an offering to the Dipankara Buddha. In the
midst of the city there is also the tope of Buddha's tooth, where
offerings are made in the same way as to the flat-bone of his skull.
A yojana to the northeast of the city brought him to the mouth of a
valley, where there is Buddha's pewter staff; and a vihara also has been
built at which offerings are made. The staff is made of Gosirsha
Chandana, and is quite sixteen or seventeen cubits long. It is contained
in a wooden tube, and though a hundred or a thousand men were to try to
lift it, they could not move it.
Entering the mouth of the valley, and going west, he found Buddha's
Sanghali, [5] where also there is reared a vihara, and offerings are
made. It is a custom of the country when there is a great drought, for
the people to collect in crowds, bring out the robe, pay worship to it,
and make offerings, on which there is immediately a great rain from the
sky.
South of the city, half a yojana, there is a rock-cavern, in a great
hill fronting the southwest; and here it was that Buddha left his
shadow.
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