[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.c19.82 # On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c19.82 On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c19.82 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.82](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.82) Eastward from the place where Gayā Kāśyapa served fire, the narrative proceeds, on the other side of a great river was the Prāg-bodhi mountain. When Ju-lai, the pilgrim explains, had been six years striving for bodhi without obtaining it, he renounced austerities, and accepted milk-gruel. Then coming from the north-east, and seeing this mountain, he liked its solitude, and wanted to attain bodhi on it. Going up by the north-east ridge he reached the summit, an earthquake then occurred, and the oread told him that the mountain could not be used for the attainment of bodhi. The P'usa then went on down by the south-west side, and came to a cave in a cliff. In this he sat down intending to go into samādhi, when again the earth quaked and the mountain shook. Heavenly devas then called out to him—"This is not the place for the Ju-lai to attain bodhi: fourteen or fifteen \*li\* south-west from this, not far from the scene of your austerities, there is a peepul tree with an adamant (\*chin-kang\*) seat, and there the past and future Buddhas all attain bodhi, please go there". The P'usa rose to go, but at the request of the Dragon of the cave he left his shadow there. Going on, preceded by the devas, he reached the Bodhi Tree. In after times king Asoka marked the various places in the P'usa's ascent and descent of the mountain by various kinds of monuments. All these present miracles, such as showers of aerial flowers and lights in the gorges; and every year. when the period of Retreat is over, stranger Brethren and laymen ascend to make offerings. - [Previous: v2.c19.81](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.81) - [Next: v2.c19.83](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.83) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.82](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.82) · Pramāṇa