Compare the whole account with the narrative in 1
Samuel v. about the Ark and Dagon, that "twice-battered god of
Palestine."]
CHAPTER XXI
~The Three Predecessors of Sakyamuni~
Fifty li to the west of the city brings the traveller to a town
named Too-wei, the birthplace of Kasyapa Buddha. At the
place where he and his father met, and at that where he attained
to pari-nirvana, topes were erected. Over the entire relic
of the whole body of him, the Kasyapa Tathagata, a great tope
was also erected.
Going on southeast from the city of Sravasti for twelve yojanas,
the travellers came to a town named Na-pei-kea, the birthplace
of Krakuchanda Buddha. At the place where he and his father met,
and at that where he attained to pari-nirvana, topes were erected.
Going north from here less than a yojana, they came to a town
which had been the birthplace of Kanakamuni Buddha. At the place
where he and his father met, and where he attained to pari-nirvana,
topes were erected.
CHAPTER XXII
~Legends of Buddha's Birth~
Less than a yojana to the east from this brought them to the city of
Kapilavastu; but in it there was neither king nor people. All was mound
and desolation. Of inhabitants there were only some monks and a score or
two of families of the common people. At the spot where stood the old
palace of king Suddhodana there have been made images of his eldest son
and his mother; and at the places where that son appeared mounted on a
white elephant when he entered his mother's womb, and where he turned
his carriage round on seeing the sick man after he had gone out of the
city by the eastern gate, topes have been erected.
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