See the account of the transaction in M.B., p.194.The place was called Karanda, from a creature so named, which awoke the king just as a snake was about to bite him, and thus saved his life.

In Hardy the creature appears as a squirrel, but Eitel says that the Karanda is a bird of sweet voice, resembling a magpie, but herding in flocks; the _cuculus melanoleucus_.

See "Buddhist Birth Stories," p.

118.
(2) The language here is rather contemptuous, as if our author had no sympathy with any other mode of disposing of the dead, but by his own Buddhistic method of cremation.
(3) The Chinese characters used for the name of this cavern serve also to name the pippala (peepul) tree, the _ficus religiosa_.

They make us think that there was such a tree overshadowing the cave; but Fa-Hsien would hardly have neglected to mention such a circumstance.
(4) A very great place in the annals of Buddhism.