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On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c7.s5.35

On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c7.s5.35

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In other treatises we find this name written *Kuei-sang-ni* (貴霜匿) read Kusannik.² The Chinese name, we are told in a note to our text was *Ho*(何)-kuo, the kingdom of Ho, another scion of the Shao-wu clan. The great Buddhist monk named Sangha, who came to China in A.D. 660, declared himself to be a native of this country, and claimed to be a member of the Ho family.³