Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c11.52

c11.52

¹ At p. 145 above, we have referred to a king of Wu-ch'a ( Uḍra ) whom the Chinese called 'the fortunate monarch who does what is pure, the lion' (Ep. Ind., Vol XV, p. 363). A king of Orissa named Śubhakarasimha, who became a Buddhist monk, is said to have left India in 715 A. D. and reached China the following year when he was eighty years of age (A. Getty, Gaṇeśa, pp. 73-74).