ien, the Chinese pilgrim (Legge's
translation, p. 62). And it possibly lasted till the 7th century, for
Hsuean Tsang mentions that in a monastery in Bengal the monks then
followed a certain regulation of Devadatta's (T. Watters, _On Yuan
Chwang_, ii. 191). There is no mention in the canon as to how or when
Devadatta died; but the commentary on the _J[=a]taka_, written in the
5th century A.D., has preserved a tradition that he was swallowed up by
the earth near S[=a]vatthi, when on his way to ask pardon of the Buddha
(_J[=a]taka_, iv. 158). The spot where this occurred was shown to both
the pilgrims just mentioned (Fa Hien, loc. cit. p. 60; and T. Watters,
_On Yuan Chwang_, i. 390). It is a striking example of the way in which
such legends grow, that it is only the latest of these authorities,
Hsuean Tsang, who says that, though ostensibly approaching the Buddha
with a view to reconciliation, Devadatta had concealed poison in his
nail with the object of murdering the Buddha.

AUTHORITIES.--_Vinaya Texts_, translated by Rhys Davids and H.
Oldenberg (3 vols., Oxford, 1881-1885); _The J[=a]taka_, edited by V.
Fausboell (7 vols., London, 1877-1897); T. Watters, _On Yuan Chwang_
(ed. Rhys Davids and Bushell, 2 vols., London, 1904-1905); _Fa Hian_,
translated by J. Legge (Oxford, 1886); _Mah[=a]vastu_ (ed. Tenant, 3
vols., Paris, 1882-1897). (T. W. R. D.)

DEVAPRAYAG (DEOPRAYAG), a village in Tehri State of the United
Provinces, India. It is situated at the spot where the rivers Alaknanda
and Bhagirathi unite and form the Ganges, and as one of the five sacred
confluences in the hills is a great place of pilgrimage for devout
Hindus. Devaprayag stands at an elevation of 2265 ft. on the side of a
hill which rises above it 800 ft. On a terrace in the upper part of the
village is the temple of Raghunath, built of huge uncemented stones,
pyramidical in form and capped by a white cupola.

DEVENS, CHARLES (1820-1891), American lawyer and jurist, was born in
Charlestown, Massachusetts, on the 4th of April 1820. He graduated at
Harvard College in 1838, and at the Harvard law school in 1840, and was
admitted to the bar in Franklin county, Mass., where he practised from
1841 to 1849. In the year 1848 he was a Whig member of the state senate,
and from 1849 to 1853 was United States marshal for Massachusetts, in
which capacity he was called upon in 1851 to remand the fugitive slave,
Thomas Si