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The Country of Sobalryul小㔜律國

Wang Ocheonchukguk Jeon (Memoir of the Pilgrimage to the Five Regions of India) 往五天竺國傳 · Hyecho · 727 (Silla, 26th year of King Seongdeok) · 1 passages · 140 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 min

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 where the king fled and settled

又迦葉彌羅國西北。隔山七日程。至小㔜律國。此屬漢國所管。衣著人風。飲食言音。與大㔜律相似。著㲲衫及靴剪其鬚髮。頭上纏疊布一條。女人在髮。貧多富少。山川狹小。田種不多。其山憔杌。元無樹木及於諸草。其大㔜律。元是小㔜律王所住之處。為吐蕃來逼。走入小㔜律國坐。首領百姓。在彼大㔜律不來。

Again, northwest of the country of Kashmir, across the mountains, seven days' journey, one reaches the country of Sobalryul (小㔜律國). This country belongs under the rule of the country of Han (漢國). Its dress, its manners, its food and its speech are like those of Daebalryul. They wear wool shirts and boots, they cut their beards and hair, and they wind one strip of cotton cloth about the head. The women let their hair grow. The poor are many and the rich are few. The mountains and rivers are narrow and small, and there is not much land under crops. Those mountains are barren, and from the first they have neither trees nor any plants.

Daebalryul was from the first the place where the king of Sobalryul lived, but when Tibet pressed in upon him he fled and settled in the country of Sobalryul. The chiefs and the people stayed behind in that Daebalryul and did not come.

Interlinear notes 1

漢國 — this means Tang. ― translator