A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms: Being An Account By the Chinese Monk Fa-Hsien of Travels in India And Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline
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}. The phraseology is wholly Buddhistic. CHAPTER XIII NAGARA. FESTIVAL OF BUDDHA'S SKULL-BONE. OTHER RELICS, AND HIS SHADOW. Going west for sixteen yojanas, (1) he came to the city He-lo(2) inthe borders of the country of Nagara, where there is the flat-boneof Buddha's skull, deposited in a vihara(3) adorned all over withgold-leaf and the seven sacred substances. The king of the country, revering and honouring the bone, and anxious lest it should be stolenaway, has selected eight individuals, r...epresenting the great familiesin the kingdom, and committing to each a seal, with which he shouldseal (its shrine) and guard (the relic). At early dawn these eight mencome, and after each has inspected his seal, they open the door. Thisdone, they wash their hands with scented water and bring out the bone, which they place outside the vihara, on a lofty platform, where it issupported on a round pedestal of the seven precious substances, andcovered with a bell of _lapis lazuli_, both adorned with rows ofpearls.
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