Thursday 18 May 2023

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.


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