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94 CHOtiA DOMINION. " 1,19
comes to Lo-lan {^ ||) (after) 2500 U; to the north one comes to Tun-t'ien
iM ffl)
(after) 3000 U\
This country had not from olden times carried on trade (with China).
By water one comes to Ts'iian-ch6u after some 411,400 IP.
"If you wish to go to this kingdom, then you must change ships at 5
Ku-hn to go there. Some say that one can go there by way of the kingdom
of P'u-kan» *.
In this kingdom there is a city with a seven-fold wall, seven feet high,
and extending twelve li from north to south and seven U from east to west.
The different walls are one hundred paces distant from each other. Four" of lo
thiese walls are of brick, two of mud, and the one in the centre of wood.
There are flowers, fruit trees, and other trees planted (on them?).
The first and second walls enclose the dwellings of the people, — they
are surrounded by small ditches; the third and fourth walls (surround) the
dwellings of the court officers; within the fifth dwell the king's four sons; 13
within the sixth are the Buddhist (i. e., idol) monasteries ('^ ^) where the
priests dwell; the seventh wall encloses over four hundred buildings form-
ing the royal palace.
There are thirty-one (sic) pu-lo {^ ^);
of these twelve are in the
west, namely: 20
Chi-tu-ni (K is JS)
Shi-ya-lu-ni (^ 55 jt ^)
Lo-pa-li-pi-pa-i {^ ® ^j| 11 § #)
Pu-lin-pa-pu-ni (% # ^ ^ Jg)
5 Ku-tan-pu-lin-p'u-t6Dg ("^ ^M ^ # ^M ^) 25
Ku-li (^ M)
Po-lun-ts'6n (^ |^ J^)
Pon-t'i-kie-ti {:^^mi^)
Yen-li-ch'i-li {f^ ^ f^ ^)
10 Na-pu-ni {M oP j/S)
Cho-ku-lin (jg -^ ^)
Ya-li-cho-lin (Eg S. i #)
30
Eight are in the south, namely:
Wu-ya-kia-li-ma-Ian (M ^% j^ ^ J^^^ ^)
Mei-ku-li-k'u-ti {M-^W^ %) 35
15 Sho-li-ni (^ ^ jg)
Mi-to-ld-mo (^ ^ MM)
K'ie-lan-p'u-tong {j^ M '/i :^)