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Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

CHAPTER XVII
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See Eitel, under the several names; Hardy's M.B., pp.

95-97; and Davids' "Buddhist Birth Stories," p.

51.
(17) That is, walked in meditation.

Such places are called Chankramana (Pali, Chankama); promenades or corridors connected with a monastery, made sometimes with costly stones, for the purpose of peripatetic meditation.

The "sitting" would be not because of weariness or for rest, but for meditation.


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