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the country of Kāmarūpa (in Eastern India), over ten thousand li in circumference. The capital is more than thirty li in circumference. To this day the Buddha-Dharma has not existed there; they serve heavenly spirits on their own. There are several hundred deva temples and several tens of thousands of tīrthikas. King Kumāra (meaning 'Youth') rules over it, having inherited the throne through more than a thousand generations. The climate and springs are warm, and the population is prosperous. The country's eastern border adjoins the southwest of the Tang empire; there are various Man and Lao barbarians who present tribute there, saying that after a journey of about two months one enters the western borders of Shu. In the southeast of this country, wild elephants also abound. When its king heard the renowned name of the śramaṇa Xuanzang, who had come from afar to Central India, he invited him to travel east. Upon meeting him, he was filled with admiration as if with an old acquaintance; he gave rise to faith in the Śākya gate, gloriously opening the way for Buddhism. Xuanzang also subdued various non-Buddhists in debates, conferred upon them the refuges and precepts, and broadly propagated the transformation. Thus Buddhism in Eastern India was propagated by Xuanzang. When his fame spread to distant borders and King Śīlāditya learned of it, he also invited him back to the west, treating him with re-doubled courtesy. The details are in his separate biography. Traveling south from here for one thousand three hundred li, one arrives at