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10 towards Chi-pin. Fa Hsien and the others went on to the Tzu-ho country where they arrived after a journey of twenty-five days. The king of the country is devoted to (Buddhism). There are more than a thousand priests, mostly belonging to the Greater Development. After stopping here fifteen days, the party went south for four days, and entering the Onion range arrived at the country of Yü-hui, where they rested. When their rest was over, they journeyed twenty-five days and arrived at the country of Chieh-ch’a, where they rejoined Hui Ching and the others.

The King of this country holds the Pan-chê-yueh-shih. The Pan-chê-yueh-shih is in Chinese a five-years-great-assembly. At the time of the assembly he invites Shamans from all quarters, and they come in vast numbers. The place where the priests sit is adorned beforehand with streaming pennants and canopies embroidered with lotus-flowers in gold and silver. The backs of the seats are