On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c20.36

v2.c20.36

The term here rendered "causeway" is Chan-tao (棧道) properly a gangway made to span two isolated points. In this passage it is evidently an artificial stone road forming a long series of steps across and up the mountain to the place where the Buddha lodged. For the "filling up valleys" of the present translation the Chinese is *tien-chuan* (填川), but in the B text the reading is wrongly *tuo* (舵)-*chuan*, "leading streams in their courses". In his translation of this passage Julien restores *Kū-shê-ka-lo-pu-lo* by Kuśāgrapura or "Palace of the Kuśa house". But the translation *shany-mao* (上茅), "superior reed-grass" apparently supposes the word Kuśāgra. The city was called Kuśāgrapura on account of the "very excellent lucky fragrant grass" which it produced. It is the Rājagaha or Old Rājagaha of the Pali scriptures.