Chapter XIV · DEATH OF HWUY-KING IN THE LITTLE SNOWY MOUNTAINS. LO-E. POHNÂ. CROSSING THE INDUS TO THE EAST.
James Legge translation
[Chinese]
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · These must have been Tâo-ching and Hwuy-king.Note 2 · Probably the Safeid Koh, and on the way to the Kohat pass.Note 3 · All the texts have Hwuy-king. See chap. xii, note 13.Note 4 · A very natural exclamation, but out of place and inconsistent from the lips of Fâ-hien. The Chinese character 命, which he employed, may be rNote 5 · Lo-e, or Rohî, is a name for Afghanistan; but only a portion of it can be here intended.Note 6 · We are now therefore in 404.Note 7 · No doubt the present district of Bannu, in the Lieutenant-Governorship of the Punjâb, between 32° 10′ and 33° 15′ N. lat., and 70° 26′ and 7Note 8 · They had then crossed the Indus before. They had done so, indeed, twice; first, from north to south, at Skardo or east of it; and second, asNote 9 · Having stayed there till the third month of winter, Fâ-hien and the two others,1 proceeding southwards, crossed the Little Snowy mountains.2