GAYA.

SAKYAMUNI'S ATTAINING TO THE BUDDHASHIP; AND OTHER LEGENDS.
From this place, after travelling to the west for four yojanas, (the pilgrims) came to the city of Gaya;( 1) but inside the city all was emptiness and desolation.

Going on again to the south for twenty le, they arrived at the place where the Bodhisattva for six years practised with himself painful austerities.

All around was forest.
Three le west from here they came to the place where, when Buddha had gone into the water to bathe, a deva bent down the branch of a tree, by means of which he succeeded in getting out of the pool.( 2) Two le north from this was the place where the Gramika girls presented to Buddha the rice-gruel made with milk;( 3) and two le north from this (again) was the place where, seated on a rock under a great tree, and facing the east, he ate (the gruel).

The tree and the rock are there at the present day.