On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c17.s3.80

v2.c17.s3.80

The pilgrim now proceeds to relate that above 200 *li* south-west from the tope of the Division of the Relics was a large town. At it was a brahmin grandee who was a learned and pious Buddhist. This man, who was very wealthy, had built near his residence a magnificent establishment for the entertainment of travelling bhikshus. By Sāśanka’s extermination of Buddhism the groups of Brethren were all broken up to the great distress of the brahmin. Some time before Yuan-chuang’s visit this man had entertained a strange old Buddhist monk with bushy eyebrows and white hair. This old monk sighed as he tasted the boiled milk which the brahmin gave him, and told his host that the pure milk of the time was more insipid than the water at Rājagaha in which he, when attending Buddha had cleansed his bowl and washed. He revealed himself to his host to be Rāhula, the son of the Buddha, who for the maintenance of the true religion had abstained from passing into final extinction, and after making this statement he suddenly disappeared.