Excerpt from The American Journal of Science, Vol. 3: Fourth Series, Vol; III (Whole Number, CLIII.), Nos; 13-18, January to June, 1897
Among the Buddha legends is one of two merchants who offered food to the Buddha, which was accepted, and in conse quenco of their request for some memorial of him the Buddha gave them a hair and fragments of his nails, and told them that hereafter a stone should fall from heaven near the place where they lived, and that they should erect a pagoda and worship these relics as though they were Buddha himself.
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