Geography of Early Buddhism c7.49

c7.49

¹ Vesālī is so called because it is extensive, i.e. Visālībhūtatāya Vesālīti saṅkhaṃ gatam (Papañcasudanī, II, p. 19). Yuan Chwang while visiting Vesālī saw two huge groups of ruins which even in the last century came down to be known as Rājā Visāl Kā garh. This is, however, an ingenuous way of explaining the name Vesālī.