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Country of Tianzhu (天竺國: 竺 is pronounced 篤 [zhú]; it is also called Shendu, or Xiandou, or Yindu, which are all corruptions. Correctly it is Indukala [Indukāla], translated here as 'Moon'. The Records of the Western Regions says: 'It means that all living beings transmigrate endlessly through the long night of ignorance, without anyone presiding over them. It is just as when the bright sun has set, the night moon follows it. Truly, because in that land sages and saints have succeeded one another in their tracks, guiding the ordinary and benefiting creatures just as the moon shines down upon them, it is named after it').