KOSALA AND SRAVASTI.

THE JETAVANA VIHARA AND OTHER MEMORIALS AND LEGENDS OF BUDDHA.

SYMPATHY OF THE MONKS WITH THE PILGRIMS.
Going on from this to the south, for eight yojanas, (the travellers) came to the city of Sravasti( 1) in the kingdom of Kosala,( 2) in which the inhabitants were few and far between, amounting in all (only) to a few more than two hundred families; the city where king Prasenajit( 3) ruled, and the place of the old vihara of Maha-prajapti;( 4) of the well and walls of (the house of) the (Vaisya) head Sudatta;( 5) and where the Angulimalya( 6) became an Arhat, and his body was (afterwards) burned on his attaining to pari-nirvana.

At all these places topes were subsequently erected, which are still existing in the city.

The Brahmans, with their contrary doctrine, became full of hatred and envy in their hearts, and wished to destroy them, but there came from the heavens such a storm of crashing thunder and flashing lightning that they were not able in the end to effect their purpose.
As you go out from the city by the south gate, and 1,200 paces from it, the (Vaisya) head Sudatta built a vihara, facing the south; and when the door was open, on each side of it there was a stone pillar, with the figure of a wheel on the top of that on the left, and the figure of an ox on the top of that on the right.