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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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signs that they did not want any such articles. This country according to report is south-west of the district of Sze-ch'uan. The country produces no iron, and very little gold or silver; the people live on cocoanuts and some esculent roots, bat have very little rice or cereals. Iron is very valuable, they call it Lu-a. The men are not quite black, of middling height, they use poisoned arrows, one of which is fatal. Going for half a month in a N. W. direction we come to Tamralipti, which is the southern district of East India. This place is sone 60 stages or more from Nálanda and the Bodhi Tree. Meeting the priest called "Lamp of the Great Vehicle" (Mahayana-dipa)" in this place they remained together there one year, learning the Sanskrit and practising them- selves in the Sabdasástra. They then went on with some hundred or so merchantmen towards Central India. When about ten days' journey from the Mahabodhi, when in a narrow pass, the road being bad and slippery, he was left behind and attacked by robbers, who stripped him and left him half dead in a ditch. At sundown some villagers rescued him and gave him a garment. Going on north he came to Nalanda, and after visiting all the sacred spots in the neighbourhood, he remained at Nalanda ten years, and then going back to Tamralipti he returned to Quědah, and with all his books and translations, amounting in all to 500,000 slokas, enough to fill 1,000 volumes, he remained at Sribhôja.
13. Shen-hung, a priest of Sin-chow, also went to Sribhôja, where he died.
14. The priest Ling-wan having gone through Annam came to India and erected under the Bodhi tree a figure of Maitreya Bodhi. Battwa, one cubit in height and of exquisite character.
15. Seng.chi, a priest and companion of the former, went to India by the Southern Sea route. Having arrived at Sainatata the king of that country, named Harsha vardhana, an upåsaka, greatly reverenced the three objects of worship, and devoted himself to his religious duties; he had made day by day above 100,000 figures of Jemma, had read through the great Prajña consisting of 100,000 ślokas, and was most punctual in his acts of worship, &c.
16. A priest Chi's ze went to the south and resided at Shang-king near Cochin China; he then went south to Sribhôja, and afterwards proceeded to India.
17. A priest Won-hing, in company with the last, left Hainan with an easterly wind and after a month arrived at Sribhôja. He then went in the Royal ship for 15 days to Malaya, in another 15 days to Quědah, then waiting till the end of winter, going west for 30 days they arrived at Någa vadana (Nagapatam ?), whence after two days' sea voyage they came to Sinhapura (Ceylon). He there worshipped the sacred tooth, and then, going N. E. for a month, arrived at the country of O-li-ki-lo? (Arakan). This is the eastern limit of East India. It is a part of the country of Champa (Siam). Staying here one year, he moved towards Eastern India with his companion Chi-'s ze. This place is about 100 stages from Nålanda. After this he proceeded to the Mahâbôdhi Temple in the Mung country (ie the temple of Khardah). Having rested here, he again returned to NAlanda, and studied the Yoga, Kosha, and other works. Moved with a desire to find copies of the Vinaya, he again repaired to the Khardah (Kie-lo-c'ha) temple. About two stages from this he speaks of a saintly artizan, who by practising the rules of the Bodhisattwa Channa, expected to obtain the power of entering the dim caverns of varth. In the end he died at Nålanda.
18. Fa-chin also started by the southern route, and after passing Shang-king (Saigon) Ka-long, Kaling, and Quodâh, he died.
19. Ta-tsing (I-tsing ?) of Laichow (of Hunan) returned to the Southern Seas in 682 A.D., and after sending his books and images to China, resided at Sribhôja, where he acted as interpreter of the Kiu-lun language. He returned to Chang'an in 693 A. D.
There is a note in I-tsing's other work (Nan-hae-k'hi-kwai-niu-fu-chu'en, K. I. p. 3) which throws some light on the geographical terms used in his former book. The note is to this effect." Going east from Nalanda 500 stages, i.e. 500 yojanas, all this country is called the Eastern frontier. At the extremity of this frontier country are the great black mountains, the southern boundary of Tu-fan. The
16 Loha in most of the Sanskritic languages.
1 This must be the priest Tang referred to above.
