Ashoka's bhikshu feeding rock. #ashoka #bhikshu #pataliputra

Huen Tsang describes a huge flat rock with a hollow in which King Ashoka kept food for the Bhikshus. According to him this rock was between the hell he made to kill people and the relic stupa. I will quote the third last chapter of page 93 of his journal “Si-Yu-Ki.” He says, “To the north of the old palace and to the south of the hell, is a great stone with a hollow trough in it. Ashoka raja commissioned the Genii as workmen to make this hollow to use for the food which he gave to the priests when he invited them to eat.” In the fields between the Kali temple in Sahnoura village and the stupa in Pandarak is a huge flat rock with a hollow in which Ashoka kept food to feed the monks. It is just as Huen Tsang described. The villagers showed me the rock though they didn’t know what it was for. British Indigo planters used it to dry their Indigo.
buddha buddhism gautambuddha. Ashoka, Ashokas bhikshu feeding rock.

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