On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c9.s2.2

v1.c9.s2.2

The story of the P'usa in an exceedingly remote period of time in his existence as a Brahman student meeting the Dīpankara Buddha and giving him worship and service is a well known one. It is found in the Sanskrit Mahāvastu¹ and Dīvyāvadāna,² in the Pali Jātakas,³ and in several forms in Chinese translations from Indian originals. No one of all these treatises, so far as I know, places the scene of this meeting in a country called Nagar. In the different accounts various names are given to the city of the incident. Thus it is called Rammanagara (or Rammavatī or Rammagama).⁴ This would seem to point to Ayodhya, the modern Oudh, but the Jātaka places Ramma-city in "the frontier territory". The city is also called Dīpavatī or Dīpavat⁵ from dīpa, a light. It is also Padma-pura or Lotos-city, in Chinese Lien-hua-ch‘êng or Hua-shi-ch‘êng.⁶ The last name means simply Flower city and it is properly applied to Pāṭalipur. It is said, however, as has been seen, to be an old name for Nagar city and it was given on account of the Lotus Ponds of the city.