The kingdom of Langyaxiu狼牙脩國

The kingdom of Langyaxiu (狼牙脩國) lies in the Southern Sea. Its territory is thirty days' journey from east to west and twenty days' journey from south to north, and it is twenty-four thousand li from Guangzhou. Its climate and its products are much the same as those of Funan, but it has a great deal of zanxiang, chenxiang and polü incense. By custom men and women alike go bare above the waist and wear their hair loose, and they make ganman wraps of jibei cotton. The king and his honored ministers add a cloud-and-haze cloth over the shoulders, take a golden cord for a belt, and pass gold rings through their ears. The women wrap themselves in cloth and wind strings of jewels about the body. In that kingdom they pile bricks to make the city wall, with double gates and towered halls. When the king goes out he rides an elephant. There are banners, feather pennons and drums, and a white canopy is held over him, and the guard about him is very strict. The people of the country say that four hundred years and more after the kingdom was founded the royal line grew weak, and there was a worthy man of the royal house to whom the people of the country turned. When the king learned of it he had him seized and shut up, but the chains broke of themselves for no reason. The king took him for a spirit and dared not harm him, and drove him out beyond the borders. So he fled to Tianzhu, and Tianzhu gave him its eldest daughter to wife. Before long the king of Langya died, and the great ministers welcomed him back and made him king. After twenty years and more he died, and his son Pojiadaduo ascended the throne. In the fourteenth year of Tianjian he sent the envoy Acheduo to bear a memorial, which said: "To the greatly blessed Son of Heaven. You have put away lust and anger and folly, you pity living beings, and your compassionate heart is without measure. Upright and majestic are your marks, and the light of your body is bright and clear, like the moon in water, shining everywhere through the ten directions. The white hair between your brows is white as snow, and its color gleams, again like the light of the moon. The gods and the good spirits make offering to you. You let down the treasure of the true law, the company of those in pure conduct grows, and the capital is adorned. Walls and towers stand high and steep, like Mount Qiantuo. Towers and terraces stand in rows, and the roads are level and straight.

The people are many and thriving, glad and at peace. They wear clothes of every kind, like the garments of heaven, and among all kingdoms yours is the most honored and excellent. The heavenly king pities the multitude of the living, and the people are at ease and glad. His compassionate heart is deep and wide, his keeping of the precepts clear and clean. He governs and teaches by the true law and makes offering to the Three Treasures. His name is spread abroad and fills the world, and the people delight to look on him as on the new moon. He is like Brahma, the lord of the world, and among men and gods there is none who does not take refuge in him. I bow in reverence at the feet of the greatly blessed Son of Heaven as though he were before my eyes. Unworthy, I have received the work of my forebears, and my blessings are without measure. Now I send an envoy to ask after his great intent. I would go myself, but I fear the wind and waves of the great sea and that I would not arrive. Now I offer these slight gifts, and I pray that Your Greatness will bend down and receive them."