釋迦方志 1.75

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The kingdom of Ayodhyā (Central India) is more than five thousand li in circuit, and the capital is more than twenty li in circuit. Monasteries are more than a hundred, with more than three thousand monks, studying both the Great and Small [Vehicles]. There are ten deva temples, and tīrthikas are few. An old monastery inside the city is where Bodhisattva Vasubandhu (meaning "World's Kin") composed treatises on the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna for several decades. Five li north of the city, on the bank of the Gaṅgā, a stūpa in a great monastery is more than two hundred feet high; here the Buddha preached the Dharma for three months for devas and humans. Beside it is a stūpa of the Buddha and the walking- and sitting-traces of the four buddhas. Five li west of the monastery is a stūpa for the Buddha's hair and nail relics. Five li southwest of the city, an old monastery in a great āmra grove is where Bodhisattva Asaṅga (meaning "Unattached") ascended to the heavenly palace at night to receive from Maitreya the Yogācāra[-bhūmi], the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra, the Madhyāntavibhāga, and other sūtras and treatises, preaching them to the multitude at dawn. More than a hundred paces northwest of the grove is a stūpa for the Buddha's hair and nail relics. Travelling east from here for more than three hundred li and crossing the Gaṅgā to the north, one arrives at: