On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c18.57

v2.c18.57

The reader will observe that in the pilgrim's account of the Buddhist sacred places in and about Vārāṇasi he mentions only one monastery, the Ṛiṣipatana-mṛigadāva-vihāra. This is in agreement with a Buddhist śāstra which informs its readers that the Deer-Park monastery was the only Buddhist establishment at Vārāṇasi.¹ In a Vinaya treatise, however, we find mention of another vihāra, the name of which is given as Chi-t'o-lo-ka-poh (枳 陀 羅 迦 鉢),² which perhaps may be for Khidrakapa. There are also one or two other Buddhist establishments in the Kāsi country mentioned in Buddhist books, but nothing seems to be known about them.