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王舍城者，問曰：如舍婆提、迦毘羅、波羅奈大城，皆有諸王舍，何以故獨名此城為王舍？
答曰：有人曰：是摩伽陀國王有子，一頭、兩面、四臂，時人以為不祥，王即裂其身首，棄之曠野；羅剎女鬼名闍羅，還合其身而乳養之。
後大成人，力能并兼諸國，王有天下；取諸國王萬八千人，置此五山中，以大力勢治閻浮提 ，閻浮提人因名此山為王舍城。
待續
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Question: Cities such as Sravasti, Kapilavastu and Varanasi
each contain the domiciles of kings. Why then is this city
alone referred to as "City of the Kings' Abode (Rajagrha)?"
Reply: There are people who say that the king of Magadha
had a son who was born with a single head, but two faces and
four arms. Because the people of the time took this to be
inauspicious, the king sliced off the head from the body and
then cast them aside in the wilderness. A female rakshasa
ghost named Lila put the boy's body back together again and
then suckled and raised him.
Later he grew into a great man whose power rivaled that
of all of the kings of the neighboring states. He
established sovereignty throughout the country, and sent all
of the former kings, eighteen thousand in all, to dwell
together in the area surrounded by these five mountains. He
used his great power to rule over all of Jambudvipa. Because
of this, the people of Jambudvipa named this mountain "City
of the Kings' Abode."
~ To be continued
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