[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大唐西域記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087) › 11.15 # 大唐西域記 11.15 大唐西域記 11.15 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [11.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087.11.15) 王宮城側有大伽藍，僧徒三百餘人，寔唯俊彥也。其伽藍大精舍高百餘尺，中有一切義成太子寶冠，高減二尺，飾以寶珍，盛以寶函。每至齋日，出置高座，香花供養，時放光明。 > This country is about 5000 li in circuit. The capital is 3000 li or so round. The land is rich and fertile; it is regularly cultivated, and produces large crops. The climate is hot; the disposition of the people ardent and quick. Their complexion is black, and their manners fierce and uncultivated. They love learning, and esteem virtue and talent. There are about 100 sanghârâmas, with some 10,000 priests (followers). They study both the Great and the Little Vehicle. They also highly reverence the Devas, and there are several hundred temples in which many sectaries dwell together. > By the side of the royal palace is a great sanghârâma with some 300 priests, who are all men of distinction. This convent has a great vihâra, a hundred feet and more in height. In it is a precious tiara belonging to Sarvârthasiddha (Yih-tsai-i-sh'ing) the prince. It is somewhat less than two feet in height, and is ornamented with gems and precious stones. It is kept in a jewelled casket. On fast-days it is brought out and placed on a high throne. They offer to it flowers and incense, on which occasions it is lit up with radiance. > By the side of the city is a great sanghârâma in which is a vihâra about 50 feet high. In this is a figure of Maitreya Bodhisattva carved out of sandal-wood. It is about ten feet high. This also on fast-days reflects a bright light. It is the work of the Arhat Wen-'rh-pih-i (Srutavimśatikoṭi). > To the north of the city not far is a forest of Tâla trees about 30 li round. The leaves (of this tree) are long and broad, their colour shining and glistening. In all the countries of India these leaves are everywhere used for writing on. In the forest is a stûpa. Here the four former Buddhas sat down and walked for exercise, and traces of them still remain. Beside this is a stûpa containing the bequeathed relics of the Arhat Srutavimsatikoti. > Not far to the east of the city is a stûpa which has sunk down into the ground from its foundations, but is still about thirty feet high. The old tradition says, In this stûpa is a relic of Tathâgata, and on religious days (holy days) it exhibits a miraculous light. In old days, when Tathâgata was in the world, he preached in this place, and exhibited his miraculous powers and converted a multitude of men. > Not far to the south-west of the city is a stûpa about a hundred feet high, which was built by Asôka-râja. Here the Arhat Srutavimsatikoti exhibited great miraculous powers and converted a great many people. By the side of it is a sanghârâma, of which only the foundations remain. This was built by the fore-named Arhat. > From this going north-west, we enter a great forest wild, where savage beasts and bands of robbers inflict injury on travellers. Going thus 2400 or 2500 li, we come to the country of Mo-ho-la-ch'a (Mahârâshtra). > — Samuel Beal 1884, Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World - [Previous: 11.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087.11.14) - [Next: 11.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087.11.16) - [Up: 11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087.11) ## Translations (1) - [Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087~en-beal.11.2) — Samuel Beal 1884, English ## Linked texts (1) - [大唐大慈恩寺三藏法師傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2053.4.22) — 慧立 & 彥悰, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087.11.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087.11.15) · Pramāṇa