On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c15.95

v1.c15.95

The number of Śākya maidens carried off by Virūḍhaka is reduced to six in the Vibhāshā-lun¹, but some other treatises have the 500 of our text.² In one treatise the number of the maidens is raised to 12 000, and they are all made whole by Buddha, and become bhikshunīs.³