Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t3.9

v2.c10.s2.t3.9

**Achievement and Inspiration** Su Manshu is a learned scholar of Indology. Back from Thailand, he went to Ling Yin Temple in Hangzhou and there wrote the eight-volume Sanskrit Code, plus a preface, and other relevant works include *A Basic Sanskrit Dictionary* (four volumes), *Fan Shu Moduo Ti Wen (Alphabets for Brahmanas)* and *Geographic Names and Itineraries for Faxian's Fo Guo Ji and Huisheng's Xi Yu Ji*, which, however, are little known of and even lost. From his extant poems, novels, essays and letters, his knowledge of India proves to be thorough and meticulous. In a poem "To Zhang Taiyan and Huang Kan from Java" (1910), he portrayed Indian landscape, "Jump and climb a mountain and look around to find no cliffs around. My horse is exhausted, while India is vast. The