釋迦方志 2.64

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the kingdom of Saurāṣṭra (West India), which is more than four thousand li in circuit. The capital is more than thirty li in circuit. To the west it borders the Mahī River. It is densely populated and subject to Valabhī. They believe in both heterodoxy and orthodoxy. There are over fifty monasteries and more than three thousand monks of the Sthaviranikāya. There are more than one hundred deva temples where tīrthikas live together. The ground is saline, and flowers and fruits are scarce. The country is not far from the entrance to the Western Sea route. On the mountain summit west of the city there is a monastery, grand and spacious, beautiful, where sages and worthies roam and dwell. Further, going more than 1,800 li north of Valabhī, one reaches