Tribes in Ancient India c62.s2.8

c62.s2.8

‘The country was above 7,000 *li* in circuit, and its capital above 20 *li*. The people were of violent ways, tall and of dark complexion, in speech and manners different from the people of “Mid-India”. They were indefatigable students and many of them were Buddhists. There were above 100 Buddhist monasteries, and a myriad brethren, all Mahāyānists. Of deva temples there were fifty, and the various sects lived pell-mell. Near the shore of the ocean in the south-east of this country was the city Che-li-ta-lo (= Charitrapura = Puri?), above 20 *li* in circuit which was a thoroughfare and resting-place for sea-going traders and strangers from distant lands.’¹