On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c8.s2.2
On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c8.s2.2
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v1.c8.s2.2
He begins at the top of the gradation with the Yojana which, he says, had always represented a day's journey for a royal army. The old Chinese equivalent for it, he says, was 40 *li*, the people of India counted it as thirty *li*, while the Buddhist books treated it as equal to only sixteen *li*.