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The Country of Sata社吒國
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.
1The country of Sata
又從此闍蘭達羅國西行。經一月。至一社吒國。言音稍別。大分相似。衣著人風。土地所出。節氣寒暖。與北天相似。亦足寺足僧。大小乘俱行。王及首領百姓等。大敬信三寶
Then from this country of Jalandhara I went west, and after a month I reached a country of Sata (社吒國). The speech is a little different, but for the most part it is alike. The dress, the manners of the people, what the land yields and the cold and warmth of the seasons are like North India. Here too there are many monasteries and many monks, and both the Great Vehicle and the Lesser Vehicle are practised. The king, the chiefs and the people revere and believe the Three Jewels greatly.