There is a monastery, containing perhaps six hundred or seven hundred monks, in which there is a place where a Pratyeka Buddha used to take his food.  The nirvana ground where he was burned after death is as large as a carriage wheel; and while grass grows all around, on this spot there is none.  The ground also where he dried his clothes produces no grass, but the impression of them, where they lay on it, continues to the present day.

[Footnote 1:  The heaven of Indra or Sakya, meaning “the heaven of thirty-three classes,” a name which has been explained both historically and mythologically.  “The description of it,” says Eitel, “tallies in all respects with the Svarga of Brahmanic mythology.  It is situated between the four peaks of the Meru, and consists of thirty-two cities of devas, eight on each of the four corners of the mountain.  Indra’s capital of Bellevue is in the centre.  There he is enthroned, with a thousand heads and a thousand eyes, and four arms grasping the vajra, with his wife and 119,000 concubines.  There he receives the monthly reports of the four Maharajas, concerning the progress of good and evil in the world,” etc., etc.]

[Footnote 2:  Buddha’s mother, Maya and Maha-maya, died seven days after his birth.]

[Footnote 3:  Anuruddha was a first cousin of Sakyamuni, being the son of his uncle Amritodana.  He is often mentioned in the account we have of Buddha’s last moments.  His special gift was the “heavenly eye,” the first of the six “supernatural talents,” the faculty of comprehending in one instantaneous view, or by intuition, all beings in all worlds.]

[Footnote 4:  This was Brahma, the first person of the Brahmanical Trimurti, adopted by Buddhism, but placed in an inferior position, and surpassed by every Buddhist saint who attains to bodhi.]

[Footnote 5:  A note of Mr. Beal says on this:—­“General Cunningham, who visited the spot (1862), found a pillar, evidently of the age of Asoka, with a well-carved elephant on the top, which, however, was minus trunk and tail.  He supposes this to be the pillar seen by Fa-hien, who mistook the top of it for a lion.  It is possible such a mistake may have been made, as in the account of one of the pillars at Sravasti, Fa-hien says an ox formed the capital, whilst Hsuean-chwang calls it an elephant.”]

[Footnote 6:  These three predecessors of Sakya-muni were the three Buddhas of the present or Maha-bhadra Kalpa, of which he was the fourth, and Maitreya is to be the fifth and last.  They were:  (i) Kra-kuchanda, “he who readily solves all doubts”; a scion of the Kasyapa family.  Human life reached in his time forty thousand years, and so many persons were converted by him. (2) Kanakamuni, “body radiant with the color of pure gold”; of the same family.  Human life reached in his time thirty thousand years, and so many persons were converted by him. (3) Kasyapa, “swallower of light.”  Human life reached in his time twenty thousand years, and so many persons were converted by him.]