Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c12.s1.41

v2.c12.s1.41

Answering for the Lingnan Region while recording Quilon and wrote that the local people were comparatively dark, white cloths were wrapped on their bodies and they liked wearing red leather shoes. The king also wrapped clothes on his body and he rode an elephant while touring. It also recorded Chola customs that fathers, sons and brothers did not cook food in the same utensils. They not even ate food in the same utensil, as they attached importance to morality. When recording folk customs of Nalīrwāla in the west (it seems that its relics are located in Tamil Nadu). It wrote that people bathed both in the morning and evening, and applied essence on the body. Most of them were from Brahmin caste and thought that they were true descendants of Buddha. The altar was set up at home to make offerings to Buddha and every morning they applied cow manure on the altar, burnt incense and offered flowers as sacrifice. The country had three layers of walls and city gate was closed if there were enemies. The great god of Hinduism was mistaken as Buddha here, but other records were reliable.