On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c18.s4.2

v2.c18.s4.2

A note added to the text here tells us that *Fu-li-chih* was in "North India", and that the north people called it the *San-fa-chih* (or Samvajji) country. In the Buddhist books Vṛiji, the Pali Vajji, is the name of a tribe or people inhabiting an extensive region of which Vesāli was the capital, and also of the country which this people occupied.¹ Yuan-chuang’s use of the term, to denote a district in which Vesāli is not included, is peculiar, and it is apparently incorrect. The character which he gives the people does not agree with Ānanda’s seven-fold statement of their virtues to Buddha for the information of king Ajātasattu’s envoy, but we must not attach much importance to the pilgrim’s statement.