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" Buddha came to this country *, wishing to transform the wicked nagas, by his supernatural power he planted one foot at the north of the royal city, and the other on the top of a mountain 2, the two being fifteen yojanas apart. "
The Travels of Fa-hsien (399-414 A.D.): Or Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms - Page 67
by Faxian - 1923 - 96 pages
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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

Faxian - Asia - 1886 - 246 pages
...country l, wishing to transform the wicked nagas, by his supernatural power he planted one foot at the north of the royal city, and the other on the top of a mountain 2, the two being fifteen yojanas apart. Over the footprint at the north of the city the...
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Among the Gods: Scenes of India : with Legends by the Way

Augusta Klein - History - 1895 - 424 pages
...the spirits therein and the wicked serpent-princes. And when he was come to the island he " planted one foot to the north of the royal city," and the other many miles away on the summit of Adam's Peak. To this day at the top of that high mountain a footprint...
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Ancient Ceylon: An Account of the Aborigines and of Part of the Early ...

Henry Parker - Ethnology - 1909 - 790 pages
...this country, wishing to transform the wicked Nagas, by his supernatural power he planted one foot at the north of the royal city, and the other on the top of a mountain [Adam's Peak], the two being fifteen yojanas apart. Over the footprint at the north of the...
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The Ratana Pāsāda, the Western Monasteries of Anuradhapura, Excavations in ...

A. M. Hocart - Religion - 1996 - 344 pages
...in the 5th century AD He tells us " that Buddha, when lie visited the Island : " planted one foot at the north of the royal city and the other on the top of a mountain, the two being 15 yojanas apart. Over the footprint to the north of the city the king built...
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