RAJAGRIHA, NEW AND OLD.

LEGENDS AND INCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH IT.
(The travellers) went on from this to the south-east for nine yojanas, and came to a small solitary rocky hill,( 1) at the head or end of which( 2) was an apartment of stone, facing the south,--the place where Buddha sat, when Sakra, Ruler of Devas, brought the deva-musician, Pancha-( sikha),( 3) to give pleasure to him by playing on his lute.
Sakra then asked Buddha about forty-two subjects, tracing (the questions) out with his finger one by one on the rock.( 4) The prints of his tracing are still there; and here also there is a monastery.
A yojana south-west from this place brought them to the village of Nala,( 5) where Sariputtra( 6) was born, and to which also he returned, and attained here his pari-nirvana.

Over the spot (where his body was burned) there was built a tope, which is still in existence.
Another yojana to the west brought them to New Rajagriha,( 7)--the new city which was built by king Ajatasatru.

There were two monasteries in it.

Three hundred paces outside the west gate, king Ajatasatru, having obtained one portion of the relics of Buddha, built (over them) a tope, high, large, grand, and beautiful.