They call the places where the monks stay (for a time) or reside permanently Sangharamas; and of these there are in all 500, the monks being all students of the hinayana.

When stranger bhikshus( 2) arrive at one of them, their wants are supplied for three days, after which they are told to find a resting-place for themselves.
There is a tradition that when Buddha came to North India, he came at once to this country, and that here he left a print of his foot, which is long or short according to the ideas of the beholder (on the subject).

It exists, and the same thing is true about it, at the present day.

Here also are still to be seen the rock on which he dried his clothes, and the place where he converted the wicked dragon.( 3) The rock is fourteen cubits high, and more than twenty broad, with one side of it smooth.
Hwuy-king, Hwuy-tah, and Tao-ching went on ahead towards (the place of) Buddha's shadow in the country of Nagara;( 4) but Fa-Hsien and the others remained in Woo-chang, and kept the summer retreat.( 5) That over, they descended south, and arrived in the country of Soo-ho-to.( 6) NOTES (1) Udyana, meaning "the Park;" just north of the Punjab, the country along the Subhavastu, now called the Swat; noted for its forests, flowers, and fruits (E.H., p.

153).
(2) Bhikshu is the name for a monk as "living by alms," a mendicant.
All bhikshus call themselves Sramans.