[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Historical geography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography) › [On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904) › v2.c19.153 # On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c19.153 On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c19.153 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.153](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.153) In this passage Yuan-chuang gives us to understand that the temple of the Starving P'usa and his exercise ground were at the very place where the P'usa mortified his flesh for six years. The text presents difficulties and it is perhaps corrupt. The statement that "Ju-lai in order to subdue the other systems also accepted Māra's invitation" (如來爲伏外道又受魔請) is rather perplexing. Julien's translation— "Après avoir dompté les hérétiques et reçu une prière du Māra," which reverses the order of things in the text, is not correct. The extreme emaciation of the P'usa at the end of his six years' fasting and mortification is told with painful minuteness in several treatises. He is represented as mere skin and bone, with sallow complexion and sunken eyes, unable to stand erect, and apparently as good as dead.¹ - [Previous: v2.c19.152](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.152) - [Next: v2.c19.154](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.154) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.153](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.153) · Pramāṇa