Chapter XIX · SHÂ-CHE. LEGEND OF BUDDHA’S DANTA-KÂSHṬHA.
James Legge translation
[Chinese]
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Shâ-che should probably be Shâ-khe, making Cunningham’s identification of the name with the present Saket still more likely. The change of 祗Note 2 · This was, no doubt, what was called the danta-kâshṭha, or ‘dental wood,’ mostly a bit of the ficus Indicus or banyan tree, which the monk chNote 3 · Are two classes of opponents, or only one, intended here, so that we should read ‘all the unbelievers and Brahmâns,’ or ‘heretics and BrahmâNote 4 · Going on from this to the south-east for three yojanas, they came to the great kingdom of Shâ-che.1 As you go out of the city of Shâ-che by