The University of Nalanda c9.3

c9.3

Here ends the one legendary account of the place. Proceeding to give the second account, which he thinks to be the true one, he says, "But the truth is that Tathāgata in old days practised the life of a Bodhisattva here and became the King of a great country and established his capital in the land. Moved by pity for living things, he delighted in continually relieving them. In remembrance of this virtue he was called 'charity without intermission,' and the saṅghārāma was called in perpetuation of his name."[2]