On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c17.s1.7

v2.c17.s1.7

In the above passage the word *shrine* or *temple* stands for the Chinese *ching-shê* as before. Julien renders this term as usual by *vihāra*, but the context shews clearly that the term is not to be taken in that sense in this passage. Fa-hsien, whose description of Kapilavastu is neither full nor precise, calls the memorial structures which he saw on various sites *ta*, or *topes*, probably using the word in an extended sense and as meaning also a small shrine.