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of the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. See also infra p. 101, line 2 the tradition referred
to in 1015 hy the envoys from Chu-lien (Coromandel) that the tomh of the Si-wang-mu was 100 li
E. of Pin-t'ung-lung.
The derivation of the name of the country from that of the Arhat Pindola seems purely
fanciful. Conf. Hirth, Op. cit., 500 at seqq.
3) The tribute mission of Pin-t'ung-lung in 987 is not mentioned in the Sung-shi, but this
work notes (490,18) a tribute mission from that country to China in 997, and this is the only one it
records. Pelliot, Op. cit., 650, shows by the Sung-shi that the tribute missions from Pin-
t'ung-lung mentioned in the passage from Ling-wai-tai-ta translated in Note 1, and there recorded
under the years 961, 962 and 1086 were from Chan-ch'dng generally, not from this dependency 10
alone.
4.
KAMBOJA.
Chon-la (^ Jl).
Clion-la lies to the south of Chan-ch'ong; in the east one comes to the 15
sea; in the west one comes to P'u-kan (^ -^);
Kia-lo-hi^ (jfjR ^ ^).
in the south one comes to
From Ts'iian-chou a ship, with a good wind, can reach this country
within a month or more.
The country covers altogether fully 7000 square U. The capital of the 20
kingdom is called Lu-wu^ (^ There is no cold weather,
J[]).
r The king's clothing is in all respects similar to that of the king of
€han-ch'ong, but the ceremonial at his court is more elaborate. When he
.goes out in his carriage of state it is drawn by a pair of horses ^ or he
has oxen. 25
The administrative divisions of the country do not differ from those of
Chan-ch'ong.
The officials and the common people dwell in houses with sides of bamboo
matting and thatched with reeds. Only the king resides in a palace of hewn
stone. It has a granite lotus pond of extraordinary beauty with golden bridges, 30
some three hundred odd feet long*. The palace buildings are solidly buLlta,nd
richly ornamented *. The throne on which the king sits is made of gharu-wood
and the seven precious substances; the dais is jewelled, with supports (^) of
veined wood (ebony?); the screen (behind the throne) is of ivory.
When all the ministers of state have audience, they first make three 35
full prostrations at the foot of the throne ; they then kneel and remain thus,
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