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the country of Puṇḍravardhana (in Central India), over four thousand li in circumference. The capital is more than forty li in circumference and densely populated. There are over twenty monasteries with more than three thousand monks, who study both the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna. There are a hundred deva temples where various tīrthikas dwell together, with the nirgranthas being especially numerous. More than twenty [li] west of the city is a great monastery with over seven hundred monks, all studying Mahāyāna; renowned monks of the eastern Indian region come from here. There is a stupa of King Aśoka where the Buddha once preached the Dharma for three months; on fast days it emits light. Beside it are the traces where the four buddhas walked and sat. In the adjacent vihāra an image of Avalokiteśvara is made; spiritual descents are frequent here. Many people abstain from grain to pray, and those who pray unfailingly receive a response. The land is low and damp. It produces the panasa fruit, which is both abundant and prized; it is as large as a crane's egg, and grows either on tree branches or among the roots, like fuling. Crossing a large river eastward again for more than nine hundred li, one arrives at