法苑珠林 1.28

1.28

According to Master Xuanzang’s *Record of the Western Regions*, "The term for linear measure is called yojana (formerly written youxun, also yujiana, also youyan, all of which are corrupt abbreviations). A yojana is the distance a holy cakravartin king marched in a single day from antiquity. Former traditions say that one yojana is forty li. Indian secular custom takes it as thirty li. That established in the sacred teachings is only sixteen li." Therefore, the *Abhidharma* states that four cubits (hasta) make one bow (dhanus); five hundred bows make one krośa; eight krośas make one yojana. One bow is eight chi in length; five hundred bows are four hundred zhang in length. Four hundred zhang make one krośa. One li has three hundred and sixty paces; one pace is six chi; combined, there are two hundred and sixteen zhang to one li. Two li have four hundred and thirty-two zhang. Calculating the previous five hundred bows as four hundred zhang for one krośa, it falls short by thirty-two zhang of completing two li. Calculating one krośa as slightly under two li, eight krośas calculate to slightly under sixteen li for one yojana. If based on the *Saṃyuktaratnapiṭaka-sūtra*, one krośa is five li; calculating by the eight krośas of the *Abhidharma* to make one yojana, it totals forty li.