[476] Burnouf, loc. cit. p. 375, 376.
[477] Burnouf, loc. cit. p. 198.
[478] Burnouf, loc. cit. p. 162, 197, 205, 212, 277.
[479] Burnouf, loc. cit. p. 206.
[480] Burnouf, loc. cit. p. 205 ff.
[481] Burnouf, loc. cit. p. 351; Lassen, "Ind. Alterth." 22, 80.
CHAPTER III.
THE KINGDOM OF MAGADHA AND THE SETTLEMENTS
IN THE SOUTH.
King Ajataçatru of Magadha, who is said to have dethroned his father Bimbisara in the the year 551 B.C. and put him to death, to have persecuted the "Enlightened," and then, from a persecutor to have changed into a zealous follower, demanded, according to the legends of the Buddhists, that the Mallas should give up to him the remains of Buddha (the ashes and the bones of his corpse) for preservation. But the Mallas refused to do this. The Çakyas also laid claim to them because Buddha sprang from their family; the warrior families of the Vrijis of Vaiçali because Buddha was a Kshatriya; and finally the Koçalas of Ramagrama demanded them. Ajataçatru intended to possess himself of them by force. Then a learned Brahman succeeded in preventing the decision by an appeal to arms; the remains were divided into eight portions, and distributed among the different claimants, of whom each erected a memorial for his portion. Ajataçatru buried his portion under a stupa, i. e. a tower with a cupola, near his metropolis Rajagriha.[482]