VAISALI.

THE TOPE CALLED "WEAPONS LAID DOWN." THE COUNCIL OF VAISALI.
East from this city ten yojanas, (the travellers) came to the kingdom of Vaisali.

North of the city so named is a large forest, having in it the double-galleried vihara( 1) where Buddha dwelt, and the tope over half the body of Ananda.( 2) Inside the city the woman Ambapali( 3) built a vihara in honour of Buddha, which is now standing as it was at first.

Three le south of the city, on the west of the road, (is the) garden (which) the same Ambapali presented to Buddha, in which he might reside.

When Buddha was about to attain to his pari-nirvana, as he was quitting the city by the west gate, he turned round, and, beholding the city on his right, said to them, "Here I have taken my last walk."(4) Men subsequently built a tope at this spot.
Three le north-west of the city there is a tope called, "Bows and weapons laid down." The reason why it got that name was this:--The inferior wife of a king, whose country lay along the river Ganges, brought forth from her womb a ball of flesh.