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The Country of Wusheyanna鄔阇衍那國

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) · 3 passages · 128 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 min

Da Tang Xiyu Ji (Great Tang Records on the Western Regions) Book 11 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.

鄔阇衍那國周六千餘里,國大都城周三十餘里。土宜風俗,同蘇剌侘國。居人殷盛,家室富饒。伽藍數十所,多以圮壞,存者三五。僧徒三百餘人,大小二乘,兼功習學。天祠數十,異道雜居。王,婆羅門種也,博覽邪書,不信正法。

The country of Wusheyanna is more than six thousand li around. The great capital city of the country is more than thirty li around. What the soil suits and the customs are the same as in the country of Sulacha. The people who live there are many and thriving, and every house is rich. The monasteries are several tens, but most of them have fallen and are broken down, and three or five remain. The monks are more than three hundred, and they work at both the Greater Vehicle and the Lesser Vehicle and study them side by side. The temples of the gods are several tens, and followers of other ways live mixed among them. The king is of Brahman stock. He has read widely in the false books and does not believe in the true Law.

2The place where King Wuyou made a hell

去城不遠有窣堵波,無憂王作地獄之處。

Not far from the city there is a stupa. This is the place where King Wuyou made a hell.

從此東北行千餘里,至擲枳陁國。

Going northeast from here more than a thousand li, one comes to the country of Zhizhituo.

Interlinear notes 1

南印度境。

It is the border of South India.