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30 INDIA AS DESCRIBED IN DARLY TEXTS
known as Tivaras. In the next stage the name of the bill was changed to Vankaka, and that of the people to Rohitassas. In the third stage the hill received the name of Supassa and the people became known by the name of Suppiyas. It is in the fourth or last stage that the hill became known as Vepulla and the people by the name of Magadhas.
With the Pi-pu-lo (Vipula, better, Vaibāravipula) hill to the west of the north gate of Rājagaha Hiuen Tsang associated five hundred hot springs of which several scores, somo cold, some tepid, remainod at his time. The source of them was traced to the Anotatta lako. In the Jaina Vividhatūrthakalpa the Vaibhāragiri is described as the sacred hill affording tho possibility of the formation of kuņdas of tepid and cold water (taptasīlāmbukuņdāni). The Pali and Epic traditions, too, speak of hot springs in connection with Rājagaha,' while Buddhaghosa definitely refers them to the Vebhāra hill.4
The Indasālaguhā in the Vediyaka hill was not the only cave in the Rajgir or Giryek range. The Rājagaha hills abounded in- guhās and kandarās, caves and crevices, sufficient to offer accommodation, according to the Vinaya
1 Samyutta, ü, p. 190f.; Law, op. cit., p. 32. 2 Watters, Yuan Ohwang, ii, pp. 163-4. 8 sáratthappakäsint, i, p. 88. 4 Imid.
