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The Country of Guwi拘衛國
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 Guwi
又從烏長國。東北入山十五日程。至拘衛國。彼自呼云奢摩褐羅闍國。此王亦敬信三寶。有寺有僧。衣著言音。與烏長國相似。著㲲衫袴等。亦有羊馬等也
Again from the country of Ojang I went northeast into the mountains for fifteen days and reached the country of Guwi (拘衛國). They call themselves the country of Samagalrasa (奢摩褐羅闍國). This king too reveres and believes in the Three Jewels, and there are monasteries and there are monks. The dress and the speech are like those of the country of Ojang. They wear wool shirts, trousers and the like. There are sheep and horses and the like as well.