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The Country of Karashahr烏耆國
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.
1Karashahr
又從安西東行□□至烏耆國。是漢軍兵□領押。有王。百姓是胡。足寺足僧。行小乘法。
Again from Anxi I went east □□ and reached Karashahr (烏耆國). The soldiers of Han □ keep guard over it. There is a king. The people are Hu. There are many monasteries and many monks, and they practise the Law of the Lesser Vehicle.