On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c21.7

v2.c21.7

The bhikshu whom Yuan-chuang in the above passage calls Śrotavimśatikoṭi, translated by him “Heard 200 *yi*”, and of whose life he gives a few wellknown particulars, was a famous arhat among the disciples of the Buddha. In the canonical books he is a native of Champā and his death, according to Yuan-chuang, took place in the Kon-kanapur country. The “200 *yi*” of our author is a mistake for twenty *yi*, that is, twenty Koṭi, and for Śrota we should have Śroṇa apparently, the name of the constellation under which the bhikshu was born.¹ The chief circumstances of his life are given in the Vinaya, and he is to be distinguished from another disciple named Śroṇakoṭikarṇa (Soṇakūṭikaṇṇa) also mentioned in the Vinaya.²