[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.c19.74 # On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c19.74 On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c19.74 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.74) Although the context of this passage seems to require us to regard Yuan-chuang as having actually gone to the Śīlabhadra monastery yet we need not suppose him to have visited either it or the Guṇamati Monastery on his way from Pāṭaliputra to Gayā. In the translation here given the words "Carrying out the rule of right to the end" are for the Chinese \*Ch'iung-chu-kuei-kü\* (窮 諸 規 矩), "carrying out right procedure thoroughly". Julien makes these words apply to the monastery and translates them by "vaste et magnifique", a rendering which seems inadmissible. In the description of the Deer Wood Monastery in the previous \*chuan\* there is a similar expression-\*li\* (麗)-\*ch'iung-kuei-chü\*, which is used of the monastery, and means "perfectly artistic in ornamentation" (in Julien's rendering "d'une admirable construction.") But here we must take \*ch'iung-chu-kuei-chü\* as applying to Śīlabhadra. As a Buddhist bhikshu he could not receive such a gift as the revenue of a city for himself. At the king's urgent request, and for the good of the Church, he accepts the gift, but extremely punctilious in keeping the rules of his Order, he gives up the revenue as an offering to the Church. Then Julien understood the text of our passage to mean that Śīlabhadra gave the inhabitants of his city as slaves to his monastery. But this is not the meaning of the author, who does not distinguish between city and city-householders, and by each term means the revenue derived from the city. - [Previous: v2.c19.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.73) - [Next: v2.c19.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.75) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.watters-1904.v2.c19.74) · Pramāṇa