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The Country of Ruimotuo銳秣陀國

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) · 2 passages · 35 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.

銳秣陀國。東西五六十里。南北百餘里。國大都城周十餘里。

The country of Ruimotuo is fifty or sixty li from east to west and more than a hundred li from north to south. The great capital city of the country is more than ten li around.

西南至胡寔健國。

Going southwest, one comes to the country of Hushijian.