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The kingdom of Kepantuo渴盤陁國

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 · 109 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 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 Kepantuo

渴盤陁國，于闐西小國也。西鄰滑國，南接罽賓國，北連沙勒國。所治在山谷中，城周回十餘里，國有十二城。風俗與于闐相類。衣吉貝布，著長身小袖袍、小口袴。地宜小麥，資以爲糧。多牛馬駱駝羊等。出好氈、金、玉。王姓葛沙氏。中大同元年，遣使獻方物。

The kingdom of Kepantuo (渴盤陁) is a small kingdom west of Yutian. To the west it borders the kingdom of Hua, to the south it touches the kingdom of Jibin, and to the north it runs up against the kingdom of Shale. The place it governs from lies in a mountain valley, and the wall of the city runs more than ten li around. The kingdom has twelve cities. Its customs are much like those of Yutian. They wear cloth of jibei, robes long in the body and small in the sleeve, and trousers narrow at the ankle. The land suits wheat, and they live upon it. They have many cattle, horses, camels and sheep. Good felt, gold and jade come from there. The surname of the king is Gesha. In the first year of Zhongdatong it sent an envoy to offer the products of its country.

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