A Record Of Buddhistic Kingdoms - Being An Account By The Chinese Monk Fa-hien Of His Travels In India And Ceylon (a.d. 399-414) By James Legge
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Here (The Travellers) Abode Fifteen Days,
And Then Went South For Four Days, When They Found Themselves Among
The Ts'ung-
Ling mountains, and reached the country of Yu-hwuy,[5]
where they halted and kept their retreat.[6] When this
Was over, they
went on among the hills[7] for twenty-five days, and got to K'eeh-
ch'a,[8] there rejoining Hwuy-king[9] and his two companions.
NOTES
[1] This Tartar is called a {.} {.}, "a man of the Tao," or faith of
Buddha. It occurs several times in the sequel, and denotes the man who
is not a Buddhist outwardly only, but inwardly as well, whose faith is
always making itself manifest in his ways. The name may be used of
followers of other systems of faith besides Buddhism.
[2] See the account of the kingdom of Kophene, in the 96th Book of the
first Han Records, p. 78, where its capital is said to be 12,200 le
from Ch'ang-gan. It was the whole or part of the present Cabulistan.
The name of Cophene is connected with the river Kophes, supposed to be
the same as the present Cabul river, which falls into the Indus, from
the west, at Attock, after passing Peshawar. The city of Cabul, the
capital of Afghanistan, may be the Kophene of the text; but we do not
know that Sang-shao and his guide got so far west. The text only says
that they set out from Khoten "towards it."
[3] Tsze-hoh has not been identified.
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