On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c15.94

v1.c15.94

We are to meet with this king Virūḍhaka again presently in connection with his sack of Kapilavastu. Fa-hsien, without mentioning the dead tree, makes the place at which the Buddha waited for Virūḍhaka to have been four li to the south-east of Śrāvastī city and he says there was a tope at the spot. In Buddha's reply to the king about his kindred being branches and leaves there was probably in the original a pun on the words śākhā, a branch, and Śākya. By the answer of the Buddha the king knew that he was speaking from an affectionate interest in his relatives, and the king was accordingly moved to recall his army. The Buddha repeated the interview with the king twice and then left the Śākyas to the consequences of their karma.