Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c11.32

v1.c11.32

There has been a great difference of opinion with regard to the identification of Ukkala and the birth-place of Trapusa and Bhallika. Though the phonetic similarity between Utkala (Orissa) and Ukkala is very great and the identification of Ukkala with Orissa is alluring, yet in view of the evidence supplied by the *Mahāvastu* and the *Lalitavistara* and by Yuan Chwang, Ukkala should be identified with a place in Gandhāra. Yuan Chwang (Watters, I, pp. 111-113) noticed the remains of two of the stūpas mentioned above in the course of his journey from Balkh to Bamian.