In the evening, at the time of incense, they bring the bowl out again.( 9) It may contain rather more than two pecks, and is of various colours, black predominating, with the seams that show its fourfold composition distinctly marked.( 10) Its thickness is about the fifth of an inch, and it has a bright and glossy lustre.

When poor people throw into it a few flowers, it becomes immediately full, while some very rich people, wishing to make offering of many flowers, might not stop till they had thrown in hundreds, thousands, and myriads of bushels, and yet would not be able to fill it.( 11) Pao-yun and Sang-king here merely made their offerings to the alms-bowl, and (then resolved to) go back.

Hwuy-king, Hwuy-tah, and Tao-ching had gone on before the rest to Negara,( 12) to make their offerings at (the places of) Buddha's shadow, tooth, and the flat-bone of his skull.

(There) Hwuy-king fell ill, and Tao-ching remained to look after him, while Hwuy-tah came alone to Purushapura, and saw the others, and (then) he with Pao-yun and Sang-king took their way back to the land of Ts'in.

Hwuy-king( 13) came to his end( 14) in the monastery of Buddha's alms-bowl, and on this Fa-Hsien went forward alone towards the place of the flat-bone of Buddha's skull.
NOTES (1) The modern Peshawur, lat.