An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c44.123

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Further s., about 1 km away, there is a stone enclosure 60 m square, which is supposed to be the jail where Bimbisāra was kept imprisoned by his son Ajātaśatru and from where Bimbisāra could have a view of Buddha when the latter resided on the Gṛdhrakūṭa hill (below). Proceeding e. wards one comes to a site identified with the mango-grove donated by the physician Jīvaka to Buddha. During 1953-5 D.R. Patil of the ASI excavated here (*IAR 1953-4*, p. 9; *1954-5*, p. 16) and unearthed two large elliptical halls with subsidiary rooms within a compound wall, believed to represent Jīvaka's monastery.