On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c19.76

v2.c19.76

The city Gayā of this passage was supposed to have received its name from the great rishi named Gaya.¹ But in some of the Chinese translations the name is translated by "Elephant", as if for Gaja, and in some we find it so transcribed. The Gayā mountain also is called "Elephant-Head", the original being Gayā-śiras.² The "Pao-yun-ching" mentioned here is the "Ratnamegha-sūtra" which professes to have been communicated on the top of Gayā mountain to an immense congregation of disciples and superhuman beings. It is a Mahāyāna sūtra, and there are two translations of it in Chinese.³