A grand monastery was subsequently built at it, famous by the residence for five years of Hsuan-chwang.
(6) See chap.

xvi, note 11.

There is some doubt as to the statement that Nala was his birthplace.
(7) The city of "Royal Palaces;" "the residence of the Magadha kings from Bimbisara to Asoka, the first metropolis of Buddhism, at the foot of the Gridhrakuta mountains.

Here the first synod assembled within a year after Sakyamuni's death.

Its ruins are still extant at the village of Rajghir, sixteen miles S.W.of Behar, and form an object of pilgrimage to the Jains (E.H., p.