The second stop of Xuan Zang in volume two of his epic book "Si-Yu-Ki-Buddhist Records of the western world." is Sigyansirpur.

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The second stop of Xuan zang in volume two of his epic book "Si-Yu-Ki-Buddhist Records of the western world." is Sigyansirpur.

(b) Sigiyansirpur: In the third paragraph of page two, Xuan Zang describes the royal precincts of king Passenadi. The unique thing about this area is there are four sites or villages with the prefix ‘Pure’. According to Huen Tsang this was the city of Prasenajita Raja. ‘Pure’ sounds similar to the first three letters of Prasenajit or ‘Pra.’ Huen Tsang says Prasenajit Raja built a preaching hall for the Buddha to preach the law. This is today Sigiyansirpur village. The village has settled on the stupa that was built over the ruins of the preaching hall Prasenajit Raja made for the Buddha. The word ‘Sigiyan’ means to give or impart knowledge. The modern word is Gyan. So this village is on the stupa that marks the spot of the Buddha’s preaching hall given to him by the king. Today it is a raised mud mound rectangle in shape with impoverished people living on it. People don’t know what the village name means. Nearby there are other mud mounds that look like stupas. The next stupa strengthens Sigiyansirpurs claim of being the preaching hall King Prasenajit Raja presented to the Buddha. This sanghramma is supposed to be next to the sanghramma built by Prasenajit Raja for Prajapati Gautami who was the Buddhas aunt. Its natural that king Pasenadi will build the sangarammas for the Buddha and his mother next to each other. I have identified this Maha Prajapatis sangaramma as Mahsi.
In addition to Mahaprajapati Gautamis sanghramma the sanghramma built for the Buddha should be north of the Jetavan which I have identified as Galkara. The latter is south of Sigiyansirpur and Mahsi. Sigiyansirpur is definitely the sanghramma Prasenajit Raja built for the Buddha.

 

           The first part of Xuan Zangs journey in his book Si-Yu-Ki volume two.

   (a) Shi-lo-fu-shi-ti/Garethi Gurudutta Sing: (Si-yu-ki- pages 1 to 13) Xuan Zang starts his epic journey in his book "Si Yu Ki Buddhist Records of the western world" volume two from Garethi. Alexander Cunningham identified Huen Tsangs ‘Shi-lo-fu-shi-ti’ as the modern day Sravasti. He was totally wrong and went off course by 90 km north east of the actual spot. He did this because of archaeological finds in Sahet Mahet villages. British historians were in a habit of finding swanky ancient brick archaeological structures with which they sensationalized their find. They had little knowledge of Indian culture and the local languages and couldn’t decipher village names as I am doing. So they concentrated on searching for brick structures to identify lost cities in the lost Buddhist story. On searching and studying the area around where Huen Tsang started his tour in volume two of his book, “Si-Yu-Ki Buddhist Records of the Western World,” his ‘Shi-lo-fu-shi-ti’ has verbal resemblance to Garethi Gurudutta Sing. This is now a tiny nondescript village on the eastern banks of the Ghaghra river. Wikipedia says about Sravasti, “the city was called Savatthi because the sage Savattha lived here.” The places name today is Garethi Gurudutta Sing. Wikipedias ‘Savatthi’ certainly has a verbal resemblance with ‘Garethi’ and the sages name ‘Savattha’ resembles ‘Gurudutta Sing.’ The latter may have been the sage. We must remember Buddhist names were totally wiped out of India. The entire vocabulary of words disappeared. These words or the entire vocabulary of Buddhist words came back with foreign Buddhists with foreign mispronunciations of what they thought the original word was. And most of the mispronounced words were further mispronounced by British historians and archaeologists who created new words thinking they were correcting the mispronounced ones. This resulted in a double whammy of mispronunciations. I realized after Huen Tsang showed me the correct sites, the correct original Indian names were also waiting to be discovered. This will be of interest to Buddhists. Wikipedia goes on to say the place was named Savatthi (Sravasti) because ‘Savattha’ lived here. ‘Savattha’ certainly has a verbal resemblance with ‘Gurudutta’. The ‘vattha’ of ‘Savattha’ sounds similar to ‘dutta’ of ‘Gurudutta’. We must remember that Savattha and Savatthi aren’t Indian words though they verbally sound Indian. Savattha and Savatthi are definitely foreign Buddhist mispronounced words of the original ‘Garethi Gurudutta.’ All the places Huen Tsang mentions are found near here exactly according to the Chinamans bearings. Today villages have settled on stupas, and by doing so, they have kept the names alive. The names just need deciphering.