釋迦方志 2.59

2.59

摩臘婆國（南印度）周六千餘里。都城周三十餘里據莫訶河。東南即五印度之重學土也。人性善順諸國所無。同摩揭陀南洲。敬教二國而已。邪正兩信。寺數百僧二萬餘。小乘正量部。天祠數百。異道塗灰其侶眾矣。城西北二十里。有大婆羅門邑。側大陷坑水流無滿。昔大慢婆羅門。謗大乘生陷入地獄處。自此西南入海道矣。又西北行二千五百餘里。至。

the kingdom of Mālava (South India), which is more than six thousand li in circuit. The capital is more than thirty li in circuit and rests on the Mahī River. To the southeast it is the land that prizes learning most among the Five Indias. The people are by nature good and gentle, found nowhere else among the kingdoms; along with Magadha in the southern continent [Jambudvīpa], these two countries alone revere the teachings. They believe in both heterodoxy and orthodoxy. There are several hundred monasteries and more than twenty thousand monks of the Hīnayāna Saṃmatīyanikāya. There are several hundred deva temples, and the tīrthikas who smear their bodies with ashes are numerous among them. Twenty li northwest of the city is a great brāhmaṇa village; beside it is a great abyss where water flows in without ever filling it. This was the place where formerly a great, haughty brāhmaṇa slandered the Mahāyāna and sank alive into hell. From here southwest, one enters the sea route. Going more than 2,500 li northwest again, one reaches