[Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms by Fa-Hsien]@TWC D-Link bookRecord of Buddhistic Kingdoms CHAPTER XX 5/20
People made much of them, and no one dared to cut them down, so that they came to form a grove.
It was in this way that it got its name, and most of the Jetavana monks, after they had taken their midday meal, went to the grove, and sat there in meditation. Six or seven le north-east from the Jetavana, mother Vaisakha( 13) built another vihara, to which she invited Buddha and his monks, and which is still existing. To each of the great residences for monks at the Jetavana vihara there were two gates, one facing the east and the other facing the north. The park (containing the whole) was the space of ground which the (Vaisya) head Sudatta purchased by covering it with gold coins.
The vihara was exactly in the centre.
Here Buddha lived for a longer time than at any other place, preaching his Law and converting men.
At the places where he walked and sat they also (subsequently) reared topes, each having its particular name; and here was the place where Sundari( 14) murdered a person and then falsely charged Buddha (with the crime).
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