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6 priests number several tens of thousands, mostly belonging to the Greater Development. They all obtain their food from a common fund. The people live scattered about; and before the door of every house they build small pagodas. The smallest may be about two chang high. They build houses for travelling priests and entertain all who arrive, giving them anything else they may want. The King of the country lodged Fa Hsien and his companions comfortably in a monastery called Chü-ma-ti belonging to the Greater Development. At the sound of the gong, three thousand priests assemble to eat.