On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c17.s2.22

v2.c17.s2.22

In this passage Yuan-chuang places the Embers Tope in the Nyagrodhavana or Banyan Grove, and this agrees with a Tibetan account translated by Mr. Rockhill.¹ In it it is only one Brahmin, named Nyagrodha from the Nyagrodhika country, who obtains the embers. In the Pali account of the distribution of the relics it is "the Moriyas of Pipphalavana" who come late to the scene of the cremation, and have to be content with the remnants of burnt fuel.² So also in two Chinese writings the "Changa-han-ching" and the "Mahāmāya-ching", it is Pi-po (that is Pippala) villagers who get the embers.¹ One treatise, the "Pan-ni-huan-ching", has an Embers Tope, and also an Ashes Tope, erected by different men at different places;² the former is built by a Tao-shi, or saintly recluse, and the latter by a brahmin; but neither of these topes seems to have been at a place near Rāmagrāma. The "Fo-pan-ni-huan-ching" agrees with the "Pan-ni-huan-ching" as to the erection of an Embers and an Ashes Tope, and places the latter in the Che-ka-kie country.³ In the "Ta-pan-nie-pan-ching",⁴ however, there is only the Embers Tope and it seems to be located at Kuśinagara.