On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c18.s2.39

v2.c18.s2.39

In this passage the Chinese for "old traces" is chiu-chih (舊跡), the reading in the A. C, and D texts. Instead of chiu the B text has yi (遺) and yi-chih means "traces left". The latter, which is evidently wrong, was apparently the reading in the texts of the translators, but Julien's rendering omits the two characters. He represents the pilgrim as telling his readers that the tope was at a place where the Buddha took exercise; but, as the context shows, the pilgrim describes the tope as being on a spot which the Buddha tells his congregation was the scene of one of his Jātakas, viz his birth as one of the 1000 sons who were brothers born in an extraordinary manner.