法苑珠林 29.53

29.53

Further traveling in a circuit northwest, crossing over ten countries, one arrives at the country of Pārasa (Persia), which is not included in India. This country produces much gold, silver, brass, sphatika crystal, and rock crystal; upon death, corpses are mostly cast away. The Buddha's bowl is in the royal palace. To the northwest it borders the country of Fulin (Byzantium). It produces white puppies, which originally come from red-headed ducks giving birth in burrows. According to the Liang Dynasty's Illustrated Treatise on Tributary States, ten thousand li north of Persia, on an island in the southwest sea, is the Country of Western Women, not included in India. Each year Byzantium sends men to mate with them. The sacred traces have been briefly presented, in accordance with the prior narration; the full worldly records are completely preserved in the great original.