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The Country of Sobalnagudalla蘇跋那具怛羅國
Wang Ocheonchukguk Jeon (Memoir of the Pilgrimage to the Five Regions of India) Complete in one volume The travel record of Hyecho, a monk of Silla, who at about twenty walked forty countries of India and the Western Regions and set down what he saw. It was lost for more than a thousand years and was found again in 1908 in the caves of Dunhuang, as a damaged scroll. Five poems in five-word lines, longing for home, are carried in it.
1A small country under Tibet
又一月程過雪山。東有一小國。名蘇跋那具怛羅。屬土蕃國所管。衣著與北天相似。言音即別。土地極寒也。
Again I went a month's journey and passed the snow mountains, and to the east there is one small country named Sobalnagudalla (蘇跋那具怛羅). It belongs under the rule of the country of Tibet (土蕃國). Its dress is like that of North India, but its speech is different. The land is very cold.