[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Historical geography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography) › [On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904) › v2.c19.27 # On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c19.27 On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c19.27 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.27) The pilgrim next takes us across to the south of the capital. To the south-west of the old city, he relates, was a small rocky mountain in the steep sides of which the inferior gods (kuei-shên) had made some tens of caves for Upagupta and the other arhats. Beside this mountain were the stone foundations of an old terrace, and tanks of dimpled water clear as a mirror, people from far and near called them "the holy water", and to drink or wash in the water effaced the soil of sin. - [Previous: v2.c19.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.26) - [Next: v2.c19.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.28) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.27) · Pramāṇa