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1,19 CHOLA DOMIXIOX. 97
The remaining countries (of India), Nan-ni-hua-lo (^ /^ ^ B^) and
others, are more than a hundred in number; they are all included under the
term of «"Western» {lit., Western Heaven ^ ^).
Concerning "Wang-sho-ch'ong (3^ ^ ^), tradition says that north of
5"Kiau-chi (Tongking), «one comes to Ta-li (Yiin-nan), and west of Ta-li one
comes to Wang-sho-ch'6ng in less than forty days' journey».
Kia Tan (g ^) in the Huang-hua-ssi (or si)-ta-ki (^^^ [or ® ]
M IE) J s^ys t^at to go from An-nan(^ ^) to T'i6n-chu (^ ^), there
is an overland route which one can take to get there. Yet as Ta-mo (5^ )^)
, Canton), we may fairly ask
10 came sailing across the sea to P'an-yu (^ ||
whether the sea journey is not more expeditious than the long overland one^*.
P'6ng-k'i6-lo (in ^ ^) of the West has a capital called Ch'a-na-ki^*
(^ ^15 Po)- The city walls are 120 U in circuit. The common people are
combative and devoted solely to robbery. They use (pieces of) white conch
15 shells (^3f i^) ground into shape as money. The native products include
, fine swords (^ ^J), tou-lo cotton stuffs (^ ^ ,|j|) and common cotton
cloth (^).
Some say that the law of the Buddha originated in this country, for
Hiian-tsang, the master of the Tripitaka in the T'ang period, (when) he got
m %)
20 the Buddhist Classics (to bring to China), had already reached the West
«Nan-ni-hua-lo (^ ^ ^ E^) city has a triple wall ^^. The inhabitants
morning and evening bathe and besmear ,their bodies with yu-kin (turmeric)
so as to look like golden coloured images (lit., Buddhas)^*. «A large propor-
25 tion of them are called P'o-lo-mon (^ ^ P^
descendants of Fo {•i^).
, Brahmans), as they are genuine
«The walls of their rooms and the mats they sit on are besmeared with
cow-dung, which they look upon as a clean substance. In their houses they set
up altars, three feet high and which are reached by three steps, and on which
30 daily in the morning they burn incense and offer flowers»; this is called
«the offering to Fo»" (-^ ^).
When Arab (Ta-shi) foreigners come to this country, they give them
seats outside the doors and. lodge them in separate houses supplied with
beddmg and household utensils ^^
35 When a woman is guilty of adultery she is put to death, and the offi-
cials make no enquiry about it.