8. The glorious one, after he had crossed the Ganges, went to the hermitage of Kasyapa at Gaya, called Uruvilva; there, having shown his supernatural power, he received as Bhikshus the Kasyapas, Uruvilva, and others, with more than a thousand of their disciples, having endued them forthwith with all kinds of spiritual knowledge and with the power to abandon all worldly action; then accompanied by three hundred disciples Upasena at the command of his maternal uncle became an ascetic.