釋迦方志 1.76

1.76

The kingdom of Ayamukha (Central India) is two thousand five hundred li in circuit. The capital overlooks the river and is twenty li in circuit. There are five monasteries, with more than a thousand monks who study the Hīnayāna. There are ten deva temples, where tīrthikas live mingled together. Southeast of the city, overlooking the Gaṅgā, a stūpa is more than two hundred feet high, where the Buddha once preached the Dharma for three months. There is a blue stone stūpa for hair and nails, and there are the walking- and sitting-traces of the four buddhas. Travelling further southeast for more than seven hundred li, crossing the Gaṅgā River, and going north from the Yamunā River in the south, one arrives at: