On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c10.46

v1.c10.46

According to the common versions of the story the hawk was Indra bent on proving or tempting the king, and the pigeon is in some versions Agni, in others Visvakarma, or a “frontier king”.³ In the “Liu-tu-chi-ching” the king's name is given as Sarvadā. In the “Hsien-yü-ching”, and in other works, the capital of Sivi is Dīpavati or Devapati, the Devawarta of “Der Weise u. d. Thor”.¹ Fa-hsien makes the scene of this deed of charity to have been in the *So-ho-to*, that is probably Svāt, country, to the south of his Udyāna.² In some works Sivi is a personal name, in others the name of a people or country, and there is a king Sivi among the supposed ancestors of Gautama Buddha.³ Yuan-chuang apparently understood his Sivika to be a personal name or epithet.