On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c5.51

v1.c5.51

I have not discovered the source from which the pilgrim obtained his information that the dragon-king of the Anavatapta Lake was the *Ta-ti* or "Great-land" *p'usa*. As the words of the text show, this *p'usa* was not the Buddha in one of his preparatory births, but a *p'usa* still living as the Nāga-rāja of the Lake. In the D text instead of *Ta-ti* we have *Pa-Ti* or "Eight-lands". This reading seems to point to some Mahāyānist *p'usa* who had attained to eight-lands, that is eight of the ten stages to perfection.