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The Country of Fadi伐地國

Da Tang Xiyu Ji (Great Tang Records on the Western Regions) 大唐西域記 · Xuanzang · compiled by Bianji · 646 (Tang, 20th year of the Zhenguan era) · 1 passages · 36 Chinese characters · reading time 0.1 min

Da Tang Xiyu Ji (Great Tang Records on the Western Regions) Book 1 The record Xuanzang laid before Emperor Taizong of the Tang after seventeen years of walking through the Western Regions and India, a hundred and thirty-eight countries in all. It is the stuff from which Journey to the West was made, but what stands here is not monsters — it is the compass and the climate and the speech and the faith of one country after another. The road runs two hundred years after Faxian and eighty years before Hyecho.

伐地國。周四百餘里。土宜風俗同颯秣建國。從此西南五百餘里至貨利習彌伽國。

The country of Fadi is more than four hundred li around. What the soil suits and the customs are the same as in the country of Samojian. From here go southwest more than five hundred li and you come to the country of Huoliximijia.