On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c23.3

v2.c23.3

¹ "The mountains with their river-courses stood high." The original here is *shan-chuan-yin-lin* (山川 嶔嶙), that is "mountains and rivers (or river-courses) of great elevation". But instead of *yin-lin* some texts have the reading *yin-chên* (隱 軫) making the clause mean "there is a succession of hill and valley". In this description as in several other passages of the Records it is not clear whether the pilgrim uses *chuan* in its classical sense of a large river, or to denote a river-course or valley.