The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.88

c28.88

The biographer of Hiuen Tsang tells a curious story about the treasure deposited by the hostage as an endowment for the Sha-lo-ka shrine at Kapisa; which was known to be buried under the feet of the image of Vaisravana, otherwise known as Kuvera, or Jambhala, the Great Spirit King, at the south side of the eastern gate of the hall of Buddha. An impious Rāja who had tried to appropriate the hoard was frightened away by portents which seemed to indicate the displeasure of its guardian spirit, and when the monks endeavoured to make use of it for the purpose of repairing the shrine, in accordance with the donor's intention, they, too, were terrified by similar manifestations.