釋迦方志 2.24

2.24

The stupa more than twenty li to the west marks the place where the Great Assembly of those in training and beyond training compiled the Five Piṭakas of the Dharma; hence it is called the Mahāsāṃghika [school]. More than two hundred paces north of the Bamboo Grove is the Karaṇḍa Pool, where the Buddha often preached the Dharma; it is now dried up. About three li northwest of the pool is a stupa built by King Aśoka, sixty feet high, with a stone pillar over fifty feet tall on which the circumstances of erecting the stupa are inscribed. Not far northeast of the pillar one reaches the city of Rājagṛha (that is, the new Rājagṛha; originally a burial ground, it was built when King Ajātaśatru moved the capital; it lies four li northeast of Kuśāgārapura). Its outer wall is already ruined, but the inner city is over twenty li in circumference, with one gate on each side. King Aśoka later relocated his capital to Kusumapura and bestowed this city upon the brahmins; fewer than a thousand families dwell there now. Southwest of the palace city are two small monasteries, places where the Buddha formerly preached the Dharma; visiting monks from various countries often come here to lodge. Next to the northwest is a stupa at the old village of the elder Jyotiṣka (also called Zhutijia, which means 'astrology'). The stupa to the left of the road outside the south gate of the royal city is where the Buddha preached the Dharma and converted Rāhula.