39.
(18) "A devalaya ({.} {.} or {.} {.}), a place in which a deva is worshipped,--a general name for all Brahmanical temples" (Eitel, p.
30).

We read in the Khang-hsi dictionary under {.}, that when Kasyapa Matanga came to the Western Regions, with his Classics or Sutras, he was lodged in the Court of State-Ceremonial, and that afterwards there was built for him "The Court of the White-horse" ({.} {.} {.}), and in consequence the name of Sze {.} came to be given to all Buddhistic temples.

Fa-Hsien, however, applies this term only to Brahmanical temples.
(19) Their speech was somewhat unconnected, but natural enough in the circumstances.

Compare the whole account with the narrative in I Samuel v.

about the Ark and Dagon, that "twice-battered god of Palestine." (20) "Entered the doctrine or path." Three stages in the Buddhistic life are indicated by Fa-Hsien:--"entering it," as here, by becoming monks ({.} {.}); "getting it," by becoming Arhats ({.} {.}); and "completing it," by becoming Buddha ({.} {.}).
(21) It is not quite clear whether the author had in mind here Central India as a whole, which I think he had, or only Kosala, the part of it where he then was.