On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c4.s2.11

v1.c4.s2.11

The next one that we have to notice in the line of descent is Ch‘ên Ta (陳達) the sixth from Shih. Ta lived in the 4th century A. D. in the time of the Chin (晉) dynasty. He also was a learned man and an official of some distinction. Being appointed Magistrate of Ch‘ang-ch‘êng (長城) in the present Hu-chow (湖州) Foo of Chekiang he prophesied that his posterity would sit on the throne. This prediction was fulfilled in the year 556 when the tenth from Ta the illustrious Ch‘ên Pa-hsien (陳先) established the Ch‘ên dynasty. This branch of the family was settled in Hu-chow for more than 200 years, and it was not from it, apparently, that the immediate ancestors of our pilgrim were derived.