On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c15.102

v1.c15.102

Continuing his narrative the pilgrim relates that three or four li to the north-west of the Jetavana Vihāra was the "Wood of obtained eyes (T'ê-yen-lin 得眼林) in which were traces of an exercise-place of the Buddha, and scenes of arhats' samādhi, all marked by memorial topes. The story was that once 500 brigands had harried this country. When these criminals were arrested king Prasenajit caused their eyes to be torn out, and the men to be abandoned in a deep wood. Here they cried in their sufferings on the Buddha who, in the Jetavana monastery, heard their cry, and was moved with pity. A genial breeze blew healing from the Snow-Mountains, and the men regained eyes and sight. When they saw the Buddha before them they became converted, paid joyful homage to the Buddha, and went away leaving their sticks which took root.