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The kingdom of Panpan盤盤國

Liang Shu Zhuyi Zhuan (Accounts of the Various Foreign Peoples in the Book of Liang) 梁書 諸夷傳 · Yao Silian · 636 (Tang, 10th year of the Zhenguan era) · 1 passages · 176 Chinese characters · reading time 0.7 min

Liang Shu Zhuyi Zhuan (Accounts of the Various Foreign Peoples in the Book of Liang) Complete in one volume Thirty-six kingdoms as the Liang of the Southern dynasties saw them. The memorial in which King Muryeong of Baekje announced that his land had become a strong kingdom once more; the record in which Silla first appears under its own name; the tale of the Buddha's hair and the stupa of King Ashoka; and the legends from the far end of the sea, of Fusang and the Kingdom of Women — from the Southern Sea to the Western Regions, this is the broadest of all the accounts of the various foreign peoples.

1The kingdom of Panpan

盤盤國，宋文帝元嘉，孝武孝建、大明中，並遣使貢獻。大通元年，其王使使奉表曰：「揚州閻浮提震旦天子：萬善莊嚴，一切恭敬，猶如天淨無雲，明耀滿目；天子身心清淨，亦復如是。道俗濟濟，並蒙聖王光化，濟度一切，永作舟航，臣聞之慶善。我等至誠敬禮常勝天子足下，稽首問訊。今奉薄獻，願垂哀受。」中大通元年五月，累遣使貢牙像及塔，幷獻沉檀等香數十種。六年八月，復使送菩提國真舍利及畫塔，幷獻菩提樹葉、詹糖等香。

The kingdom of Panpan (盤盤國) sent envoys with tribute in the Yuanjia years of Emperor Wen of Song and in the Xiaojian and Daming years of Emperor Xiaowu. In the first year of Datong its king had an envoy present a memorial, saying: "To the Son of Heaven of Zhendan (震旦) in Jambudvipa, at Yangzhou. Adorned with all good things, revered by all beings, you are like a sky so clear that no cloud is in it, its bright shining filling the eyes; and the body and mind of the Son of Heaven are pure in just this way. The religious and the lay (道俗) are many and flourishing, and all receive the shining transformation of the holy king, who ferries all beings across and is forever their boat and oar. Your servant has heard of it and rejoices in the good of it. We with all sincerity bow in reverence at the feet of the ever-victorious Son of Heaven, and bow our heads to ask after your health. Now we present a slight offering, and pray that you will take it in pity." In the fifth month of the first year of Zhongdatong he sent envoys again and again with ivory images and pagodas, and offered several tens of kinds of incense, chenxiang and tanxiang among them. In the eighth month of the sixth year he again had an envoy bring true relics of the kingdom of Bodhi and a painted pagoda, and offered leaves of the bodhi tree and zhantang and other incenses.

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