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The Country of Andaluofu安呾羅縛國

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 · 138 Chinese characters · reading time 0.6 min

Da Tang Xiyu Ji (Great Tang Records on the Western Regions) Book 12 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.

安呾羅縛國,睹貨邏國故地也,周三千餘里。國大都城周十四五里。無大君長,役屬突闕。山阜連屬,川田隘狹。氣序寒烈,風雷淒勁。豐稼穡,宜花果。人性獷暴,俗無綱紀,不知罪福,不尚習學,唯修神祠,少信佛法。伽藍三所,僧徒數十,然皆遵習大眾部法。有一窣堵波,無憂王建也。

The country of Andaluofu is old land of the country of Duhuoluo, and it is more than three thousand li around. The great capital city of the country is fourteen or fifteen li around. There is no great ruler, and the country is subject to the Turks. Hills and mounds run on joined to one another, and the river valleys and fields are narrow. The seasons are cold and harsh, and the wind and thunder are bleak and strong. Planting and harvest are plentiful, and the land suits flowers and fruits. The nature of the people is rough and fierce, and their customs have neither bond nor rule. They do not know sin from blessing, and they do not prize study. They tend only the temples of the gods, and they believe little in the Law of the Buddha. There are three monasteries and several tens of monks, and all of them follow and study the Law of the Mahasamghika school. There is one stupa, and it was built by King Wuyou.

從此西北,入谷逾嶺,度諸小城,行四百餘里,至闊悉多國。

From here to the northwest, entering valleys and crossing ridges and passing several small cities, going more than four hundred li, one reaches the country of Kuoxiduo.