On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c19.61

v2.c19.61

² The common meaning of *tang-tao* (當道) is "on the road" and this may be its signification here. But as the temples could not have been actually on the highway the phrase may mean at the head of the passage, that is, at the place where the road to the middle gate began.