Buddhism
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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