The exact location of Sadnagara is uncertain although Tibetan sources have identified it as being three months of travel east of Bodh Gaya so likely in the far-eastern regions of Bengal around the area of modern Chittagong.

[4] Because of this, he was ordained as a monk at Mahācatiya Vihāra at the age of eight where he was educated in both the Mahayana and Vajrayana schools of Buddhism.

By the age of twenty in 1404 CE, he left Sadnagara to live as an itinerant monk and scholar with Sri Lanka being the first destination he set out for from the port of Chittagong.

Despite this, the local kings continued to support the remaining small Buddhist community around the Mahabodhi Temple.

It was in Magadha that Vanaratna reached the decision to leave India and travel to Nepal and Tibet, likely due to the lack of a thriving Buddhist community.

[11] The manuscript awas originally found in Nepal and is now kept by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in London.