法苑珠林 29.52

29.52

Crossing two more countries, one reaches northwest to the country of Mālava, belonging to South India. Over twenty li northwest of the capital, there is a large Brahmin village. Beside it is a great sunken pit where water flows without filling it; this is the place where in the past the Great Proud Brahmin slandered the Mahāyāna and sank alive into the earth. Further northwest, one reaches the country of Aṭali, belonging to South India. This country produces black pepper and frankincense, whose tree leaves resemble crabapples.