大唐西域記 7.28

7.28

伏鬼側不遠，有數伽藍，雖多傾毀，尚有僧徒，並皆遵習大乘教法。

Not far from the spot where the demons were subdued there are many sanghārāmas, mostly in ruins, but there are still some priests, who all reverence the doctrine of the Great Vehicle. Going south-east from this 100 li or so, we come to a ruined stūpa, but still several tens of feet high. Formerly, after the Nirvāṇa of Tathāgata, the great kings of the eight countries divided his relics. The Brāhman who meted out their several portions, smearing the inside of his pitcher with honey, after allotting them their shares, took the pitcher and returned to his country. He then scraped the remaining relics from the vessel, and raised over them a stūpa, and in honour to the vessel (pitcher) he placed it also within the stūpa, and hence the name (of Drōṇa stūpa) was given it. Afterwards Aśōkarāja, opening (the stūpa), took the relics and the pitcher, and in place of the old one built a great stūpa. To this day, on festival occasions (fast-days), it emits a great light. Going north-east from this, and crossing the Ganges, after travelling 140 or 150 li, we come to the country of Fei-she-li (Vaiśāli).