Chapter II · ON TO SHEN-SHEN AND THENCE TO KHOTEN.
James Legge translation
[Chinese]
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · An account is given of the kingdom of Shen-shen in the 96th of the Books of the first Han dynasty, down to its becoming a dependency of ChinNote 2 · This is the name which Fâ-hien always uses when he would speak of China, his native country, as a whole, calling it from the great dynasty wNote 3 · So I prefer to translate the character 僧 (săng) rather than by ‘priests.’ Even in Christianity, beyond the priestly privilege which belongs Note 4 · Meaning the ‘small vehicle, or conveyance.’ There are in Buddhism the triyâna, or ‘three different means of salvation, i.e. of conveyance acNote 5 · ‘Śraman’ may in English take the place of Śramaṇa (Pâli, Samana; in Chinese, Shâ-măn), the name for Buddhist monks, as those who have separaNote 6 · The name for India is here the same as in the former chapter and throughout the book,—Tʽeen-chuh (天竺), the chuh being pronounced, probably, Note 7 · Tartar or Mongolian.Note 8 · Woo-e has not been identified. Watters (‘China Review,’ viii. 115) says:—‘We cannot be far wrong if we place it in Kharaschar, or between thNote 9 · This means in one sense China, but Fâ-hien, in his use of the name, was only thinking of the three Tsʽin states of which I have spoken in a Note 10 · This sentence altogether is difficult to construe, and Mr. Watters, in the ‘China Review,’ was the first to disentangle more than one knot iNote 11 · Whom they had left behind them at Tʽun-hwang.Note 12 · The country of the Ouighurs, the district around the modern Turfan or Tangut.Note 13 · Yu-teen is better known as Khoten. Dr. P. Smith gives (p. 11) the following description of it:—‘A large district on the south-west of the deNote 14 · After travelling for seventeen days, a distance we may calculate of about 1500 le, (the pilgrims) reached the kingdom of Shen-shen,1 a count