佛祖統紀 32.20

32.20

The Lou tan jing states: 'East of the Onion River is named Cīnasthāna.' Dharma Master Yanzong of the Tang stated: 'West of the Pamir Mountains (Congling), all belong to the Brahmic race; to the left of the Iron Gate, all are called Hu lands.' (Some refer to the Five Indias as Hu countries, Brahmic scriptures as Hu sūtras, and Brahmic monks as Hu monks; these are all grave errors.) Tripiṭaka Master Yijing of the Tang boarded a ship from Panyu (pronounced Pan-yu; present-day Guangzhou) in the second year of Xianheng [671 CE], heading west to Holing [Java], next to Śrīvijaya, next to Malayu, and next to Kedah. Traveling north for ten days, he reached the Naked People (in the southwest of Shu; both men and women go naked). Traveling northwest for half a month, he reached Tāmralipti (the harbor on the border of Eastern India, where one embarks on ships to return to the Tang). Directly west, he reached the country of Mahābodhi (namely Magadha). Nālandā Monastery is seventy relay stations away (another source says that Tāmralipti is ten days from Mahābodhi). At Nālandā, he paid homage to the fundamental stūpa; on Gṛdhrakūṭa Mountain, he viewed the place where the robes were folded; and at the Mahābodhi Temple, he paid homage to the true image (namely the place of the diamond seat at the bodhimaṇḍa).