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Prof. Choudhary mentioned that the stray finds were certainly helpful in ascertaining at least a part of the history and it was clear that the site continued to be a centre of Buddhism for a pretty long period.
Tradition asserted that a large number of Chinese and Siamese travellers visited this place, and he enumerated that travellers including 1. Hieun-Chiu (Indian Name Prakasmati), who spent his time in Sin-Che temple and other temples and returned by way of Nepal and Tibet, 2. Taou-Hi (Indian name-Sridev), who dwelt in Kusi country, 3. Sin-Chiu (Charita Varma), who lived in the Sin-Che temple, 4. Chi-Hing (Prajnadeva), who visited the Sin-Che temple, 5. Tang, who visited Vaishali and Kusi country and 6. Hwui-Lun (Prajna Varma), who visited Sin-Che temple, besides Hieun Tsang had visited North Bihar.
As seen from the details of the travellers, it emerges that there was an important Buddhist temple known as “Sin-Che”, in Chinese terminology, which lay somewhere north of the Ganga in Bihar. Prof. Choudhary mentioned that even though the exact location of Sin-Che temple was not yet rightly known, it could be conjectured that this temple was situated somewhere between Vaishali and Kosi country.
He suggested that since Anguttarapa region lay between Videha on the one hand and Kosi country on the other, the Sin Che temple must have been situated somewhere in Anguttarapa region and must have been an important Buddhist shrine.
To be continued......