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Lo-kia-yih-to and others. Narrowly escaping death by robbers, he arrived in North India, and there again met the Chinese ambassador, who commissioned Yuan Chau and his companion Lo-kia-yi h-to to go to Western India, to the country known as Lo-ta. Passing through Balkh they came to the Nava Vihara, where they paid reverence to the water pitcher of Buddha and other relics. Passing thence through the region of Sin-tu and the Dard people, they remained for four years with the Mung king, after which they went to the district of the Vajrâsana (Magadha) and also the Nalanda Temple. Thence returning through Nepal and Kapisa, owing to the difficulties of the road during the period of hostilities with the Arabs, they went back and traversing India again Yüan Chan finally died in the country of Amar å vat in Central India, aged 60 and odd years.
II. Hwni Lun. Hwui Lun, & master (of the law), was a native of Sin-ko (Corea). His Indian name was Praja varman. He quitted his own country inflamed with a desire to perform a pilgrimage to the sainted spots of his religion. Taking ship he arrived in Fuhkeen, and thence gradually journeying forward came to Loyang. There he was commissioned by the Emperor to follow the steps of Yü an-chau, who had gone to the Western Countries, and, having found him, to attend him as servant.
Having undertaken this, he went from place to place, paying homage to the sacred spots of his religion. He dwelt for ten years in the convent called Sin-ché, in the country of Amaravat (or A mar å båd?). Thence going eastward he visited the convent called Touho-lo-sse, belonging to North India. This temple was originally built by the Tou-ho-lo peoples (the Tokhari ?) for the accommodation of their fellow countrymen. It is very rich and well supplied with all necessaries for food and convenience, so that no other can surpass it in this respect. The temple is called Gand hâraBanda. Here Hwai Lan remained for the purpose of studying the Sanskrit language.
All priests who come from the North occupy this temple, as the Superior of it is a man of
great learning. They call the Temple Tahsio (i.e. Great learning'). To the west of the temple is another belonging to the country of Kapisa. This temple is also very rich, and celebrated for the learning of its priests, who excel in the Little Vehicle. Buddhist monks of the North also dwell here. This temple is called Gun& charita. To the N. E. of the great Bôdhi (the temple just named) about a couple of stages, is another temple called Chalukya.
This is the one which was formerly built by a king of the Chalukya kingdom in South India. This temple though poor is remarkable for the religious life of its inmates. In more recent times a king called Jih-k wan (Sunarmy,') built a new temple by the side of the old one, which is now getting finished, and in which many priests from the South take their residence. In short all the different districts (of India and its neighbourhood) have temples erected for the entertainment of priests belonging to the respective countries-all, except China, which has none : and so we pass and return under great difficulties.
Forty stages or so to the eastward of this we come to the Nalanda Temple. First taking the Ganges and descending it, we reach the Mriga śikhavana Temple. Not far from this is an old temple, the foundations of which alone remain-it is called the China Temple. The old story goes that this temple was built by Srigupta Maharaja for the use of priests from China. At this time there were some Chinese monks, twenty or so in number, who, having wandered away from Sz'chuen by the road known as Ko-yang (?) came out near the Mahabodhi and there offered their worship. The king, moved with reverence on account of their piety, gave them a village of considerable extent, where they might remain and finally settle-twenty-four places in all. Afterwards the Tang priests having died out, the village and its land attached came into the possession of aliens, and now three persons belonging to the Migava na Temple occupy it. This oocurred about 500 years ago or so. The territory now belongs to the king of Eastern India, whose name is Déva varma.
1 The Larike of Ptolemy, the Lar of the Arab writers, and Latadesa of the Hindus, corresponding to the Northern Konkan.-Eu.
