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the country of Matipura (in Central India), over six thousand li in circumference, with the capital city over twenty li. The people do not believe in the Buddha but revere heavenly deities. There are more than ten monasteries and eight hundred monks, mostly of the Lesser Vehicle. There are over fifty deva temples, where tīrthikas live intermingled. On the eastern bank of the Gaṅgā at the northwestern border of the country, the city of Mayūra is over twenty li in circumference. It produces brass and crystal. Beside the city it borders the great river, where there is a great deva temple of great spiritual power. There is a pool with stone masonry for its banks, channeling the river to form an inlet. The Five Indias consider it the Gate of the Gaṅgā River (Gaṅgādvāra), a place where blessings are generated and sins extinguished; hundreds of thousands of people constantly bathe there. Traveling north from Mayūra for three hundred li, one reaches