The Country of Jiamolupo迦摩縷波國

The country of Jiamolupo is more than ten thousand li around. The great capital city of the country is more than thirty li around. The land has many springs and is damp, and they sow and reap in season. The bansuo fruit and the naluojiluo fruit grow on many trees, yet they are prized and costly all the more. River streams and lakes and ponds gird the cities and towns like a belt. The climate is mild and clear, and the customs are simple and plain. The people are small and low in form, and their faces are dark. Their speech differs a little from Central India. They are very rough and fierce by nature, but their will is set on studying hard. They take the gods of heaven for their masters and serve them, and they do not believe in the Law of the Buddha. So from the rising of the Buddha down to this day no monastery has yet been raised there and no monks gathered. Those who have a pure faith only think on it in secret. There are several hundred temples of the gods and several tens of thousands of followers of other ways.

The present king is a descendant of the god Naluoyan and is of the Brahman stock. His name is Posaijieluofamo and his title is Jumoluo. Since he took the land for himself his house has ruled age after age, and down to the present king a thousand generations have passed. The lord above loves learning, and the common people follow his teaching, and men of high ability from far regions long for his sense of right and come to him as guests. Though he does not believe in the Law of the Buddha with a pure heart, he reveres monks of high learning. At first he heard that a monk of the country of Zhina was at the monastery of Nalantuo in Mojietuo, who had come from a far region and was studying the deep Law of the Buddha, and he went back and forth two and three times with earnest asking, but the monk did not follow his call. At that time the master of debate Shiluobatuoluo said, "If you would repay the kindness of the Buddha, you must spread the true Law. Go, and do not shrink from the long crossing. King Jumoluo and his house have taken other ways for their masters, and now he asks for a monk. This is a good thing. If by this his road is changed, the blessing and the profit will be wide and far. Long ago you raised a great and wide heart and made a broad vow, and you wandered alone in a strange land and gave up your body to seek the Law. It was to save all living beings. How could it have been for your home country alone? You should forget gain and loss and not be bound by honor or shame, but spread the holy teaching abroad and open a way for the crowds that are lost. Put others first and yourself behind. Forget your name and make the Law wide." So he could not get free by refusing, and at last he went with the messenger and met the king. King Jumoluo said, "Though I have no gifts, I have always longed for high learning, and hearing your name I held it in honor, and so I made bold to ask you to come." He answered, "My ability is small and my wisdom is narrow, and it is too much that you should have listened for word of me." King Jumoluo said, "It is noble. You long for the Law and love learning. You look on your body as a floating thing, and you have passed over piled dangers and wandered far in a strange land. This comes from the teaching of your king, and from a country whose manner is to hold learning high. Now in the many countries of India there are many who sing the Qinwang pozhen yue of the country of Mohezhina, and I have heard of it for a long time. Is that not the home country of your great virtue?" He answered, "It is so. That song praises the virtue of our lord." King Jumoluo said, "I did not think that your great virtue was a man of that country. I have always longed for its manners and its teaching and have looked east for a long time, but the mountains and the rivers bar the road, and I have had no way to reach it myself." He answered, "The holy virtue of our great lord soaks far and his kind teaching is spread wide, and in strange customs and other lands many bow at his gate and call themselves his servants." King Jumoluo said, "If he covers and carries all in such a way, my heart wishes to send him tribute. Now King Jieri is in the country of Jiezhuwaqiluo and is about to make a great giving and to raise high his blessing and his wisdom, and of the monks and the Brahmans of the five Indias who have learning there is not one whom he has not called and gathered. Now he has sent a messenger to ask for me, and I would have you go with me." So at last he went.

East of this country the hills and mounds run on together, and there is no capital of a great country. Its border touches the tribes of the southwest, so its people are of a kind with the Man and the Liao. When one asks closely about the customs of the place, it is said that about two months of travel brings one into the southwest border of Shu. But the mountains and the rivers are steep and barred, and a fog of sickness gathers on the ridges, and poisonous snakes and poisonous plants do harm that grows very great. In the southeast of the country wild elephants are fierce in herds, so in this country the elephant troops are especially strong.

From here one goes south a thousand two or three hundred li and comes to the country of Sanmodazha.