Chapter XXXIII · MOUNT GURUPADA, WHERE KAŚYAPA BUDDHA’S ENTIRE SKELETON IS.
James Legge translation
[Chinese]
On this hill hazels grow luxuriously; and there are many lions, tigers, and wolves, so that people should not travel incautiously.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · ‘Fowl’s-foot hill,’ ‘with three peaks, resembling the foot of a chicken. It lies seven miles south-east of Gayâ, and was the residence of MaNote 2 · Was it a custom to wash the hands with ‘earth,’ as is often done with sand?Note 3 · This I conceive to be the meaning here.Note 4 · (The travellers), going on from this three le to the south, came to a mountain named Gurupada,1 inside which Mahâkaśyapa even now is. He mad