Raw data
Ths site is known as Sahet-Mahet. "The main road from Balrampur to Bahraich" runs by the site. it is 21 kms. west of the Balrampur railway station. The Sahet portion of the ruins is also identifed with the ancient site of Jetvana. The first monastery on the site dates, according to Buddhist texts, to the time of the Buddha. He spent 24 rainy seasons there. Inscriptions show its in active use in the 3rd century BCE and the second century CE. Much of the site was in ruins when Fahien visted in 407 CE. The large monastery at Jetvana was still functioning. When Xuanzang arrived in 637-38 the whole site was an abandoned ruin. The site was revived in the beginning in the eighth century and the last donative inscriptions are from the 12th century. In the 1950's and 60's Burnese Buddhists built a Rest House for pilgrims to the site.
See See D.C. Ahir, Buddhist Sites and Shrines in India: History, Art and Architecture (Delhi: Inian Books Centre, 2003) p.253 - 266.
Src: IN
Input by: SG, Apr 6, 2009
Final data (and their sources)
Lat/Long coordinates' accuracy:
The monastery in question is assumed to be situated actually no farther than 200 m from the point defined by the coordinates below.
General location of the Sravasti monastery, India.
lat=27.5166667 long=82.05
Mapping & images: Falling Rain Genomics (http://maps.fallingrain.com), 2009.
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Final data - explanatory notes
1. Monastery's name
- Sravasti monastery
2. Monastery's modern country & province
- India:State of Uttar Pradesh
3. Monastery's alternative/historical names
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4. Monastery's lat/long coordinates
- Approx. Lat 27.5166667 Long 82.05 http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/w.cgi?c=in&DG=ANS
5. Other known nearby Buddhist monasteries
- Jetavana monastery
- Migāramātupāsāda monastery
- Rājakārāma nunnery
6. Modern name of the known nearest city, town, or village
- Saheth-Maheth http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/w.cgi?c=in&DG=ANS
7. The settlement's alternative/historical names
- Mahet http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/w.cgi?c=in&DG=ANS
- Sahetha-Mahetha http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/w.cgi?c=in&DG=ANS
- Set Mahet http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/w.cgi?c=in&DG=ANS
- Seth Mahet http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/w.cgi?c=in&DG=ANS
- Srabasti http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/w.cgi?c=in&DG=ANS
- Sravasti http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/w.cgi?c=in&DG=ANS
8. The settlement's coordinates
- Exactly Lat 27.5166667 Long 82.05 http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/w.cgi?c=in&DG=ANS
9. Monastery's major Buddhist tradition
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10. Monastery's Buddhist sub-tradition
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11. Date-early
- 500 BCE
12. Date-intermediate
- 5th cent CE
13. Date-late
- 635 CE site abandoned . Site revived 8th - 12th Centuries CE. Current rest house on site established 1950's.
14. Details of contacts with other monasteries
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15. Type of evidence regarding the monastery
- archaeological, texts.
16. Additional notes
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