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In the country there are twenty-two monasteries, at all of which there are monks residing. The Law of Buddha is also flourishing in it. Here Fa-Hsien stayed two years, writing out his Sutras, and drawing pictures of images. After this he embarked in a large merchant-vessel, and went floating over the sea to the south-west.
Do you immediately go away, that we do not all die here;" and with these words he died. Fa-Hsien stroked the corpse, and cried out piteously, "Our original plan has failed; it is fate. What can we do?"
The name Leang remains in the department of Leang-chow in the northern part of Kan-suh. The "southern Leang" arose in 397 under a Tuh-fah Wu-ku, who was succeeded in 399 by a brother, Le-luh-koo; and he again by his brother, the Now-t'an of the text, in 402, who was not yet king therefore when Fa-Hsien and his friends reached his capital.
or RECORD OF BUDDHISTIC KINGDOMS Fa-Hsien had been living in Ch'ang-gan. After starting from Ch'ang-gan, they passed through Lung, and came to the kingdom of K'een-kwei, where they stopped for the summer retreat. When that was over, they went forward to the kingdom of Now-t'an, crossed the mountain of Yang-low, and reached the emporium of Chang-yih.
Fa-Hsien, the first of these interesting men, left China in 399 and resided in India from 405 to 411, spending three years at Pataliputra and two at Tamralipti.
They all receive their food from the common store. The smallest of these may be twenty cubits high, or rather more. The lord of the country lodged Fa-Hsien and the others comfortably, and supplied their wants, in a monastery called Gomati, of the mahayana school. Attached to it there are three thousand monks, who are called to their meals by the sound of a bell.
See Davids' Hibbert Lectures, p. 146. Having stayed there till the third month of winter, Fa-Hsien and the two others, proceeding southwards, crossed the Little Snowy mountains. On them the snow lies accumulated both winter and summer. Hwuy-king could not go any farther. A white froth came from his mouth, and he said to Fa-Hsien, "I cannot live any longer.
This is the name which Fa-Hsien always uses when he would speak of China, his native country, as a whole, calling it from the great dynasty which had ruled it, first and last, for between four and five centuries.
This chapter was translated into Chinese before 417 A.D. and therefore can hardly be later than 350. He is also mentioned in the Sukhâvatî-vyûha. The records of the Chinese pilgrims Fa-Hsien and Hsüan Chuang indicate that his worship prevailed in India from the fourth till the seventh century and we are perhaps justified in dating its beginnings at least two centuries earlier.
Now, as of old, there is a company of monks there, most of whom are students of the hinayana. There is also a monastery, which may contain more than a hundred monks. Fa-Hsien is here mentioned singly, as in the account of his visit to the cave on Gridhra-kuta. I think that Tao-ching may have remained at Patna after their first visit to it. See chap. xxvii, note 1.
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