What do these pilgrims-Egeria, Faxian, and Vidura-see and do when they visit a holy site? What are some of the threats, explicit and implicit, they face as they travel?
How might their travel (where they go, what they do, how and to whom they report their experiences, etc.) indicate the extent to which theirs was a universalizing faith?
What appears to be the role of storytelling in pilgrimage? What do these excerpts suggest about the relationship between monasteries and holy sites? Between pilgrims and written text?
In what ways do these passages highlight the universalizing aspects of Christianity and Buddhism? What evidence do you see in the Bhagavata Purana of the accessibility of bhakti devotion? What evidence do you see of the arguably less universalizing components of Hinduism?