The Country of Nibolo尼波羅國
尼波羅國周四千餘里，在雪山中。國大都城周二十餘里。山川連屬，宜穀稼，多花果，出赤銅、犛牛、命命鳥。貨用赤銅錢。氣序寒烈，風俗險诐，人性剛獷，信義輕薄。無學藝，有工巧。形貌醜弊，邪正兼信。伽藍、天祠接堵連隅。僧徒二千餘人，大小二乘，兼功綜習。外道異學，其數不詳。
The country of Nibolo is more than four thousand li around, and it lies among the snowy mountains. The great capital city of the country is more than twenty li around. Mountains and streams run on one after another. The land is good for grain, and flowers and fruits are many. It yields red copper, yaks and mingming birds. For money they use red copper coins. The climate is cold and bitter and the customs are rough and crooked. The people are hard and wild by nature, and they are light and thin in faith and in duty. They have no learning and no arts, but they are skilled with their hands. Their looks are ugly and worn, and they believe in the false and the true together. Monasteries and temples of the gods stand wall to wall and corner to corner. The monks are more than two thousand, and they work at both the Greater Vehicle and the Lesser Vehicle and study them side by side. The followers of other ways and of other learning are more than can be counted.
王，剎帝利栗呫婆種也。志學清高，純信佛法。近代有王，號鴦輸伐摩，碩學聰睿，自制《聲明論》，重學敬德，遐邇著聞。
The king is of the Kshatriya stock of Lichepo. He sets his mind on learning and is pure and lofty, and he believes in the Law of the Buddha with an undivided heart. In recent times there was a king whose name was Yangshufamo. His learning was great and he was clear and wise, and he himself wrote the Shengming lun. He held learning in honor and revered virtue, and his name was known far and near.
Interlinear notes 1
唐言光胄。
In the language of the Tang it is Guangzhou.
3The pool where fire rises
都城東南有小水池，以人火投之，水即焰起。更投餘物，亦變為火。
Southeast of the capital city there is a small pool of water. If a man throws fire into it, flames rise at once from the water. If he throws in anything else, that too turns into fire.
從此復還吠舍厘河，南渡殑伽河，至摩揭陁國。
From here one returns again to the river of Feisheli, and crossing the Qingqie river to the south one comes to the country of Mojietuo.
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舊曰摩伽陁，又曰摩竭提，皆訛也。中印度境。
In old days it was called Mojiatuo, and also Mojieti, and both are wrong. It is in the border of Central India.