釋迦方志 2.10

2.10

More than fifty li further southwest, crossing the Nairañjanā River, is the city of Gayā. It has few inhabitants, with only a little over a thousand families of Brahmins residing there, who are descendants of ṛṣis. They are not treated as subjects by the king, and all people revere them. More than thirty li north of the city is a clear spring, traditionally called the Sacred Water; those who drink from it and bathe in it have their sins washed away.