釋迦方志 2.59

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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