The estimates of it are very different, and vary from four and a half or five miles to seven, and sometimes more.

See the subject exhaustively treated in Davids' "Ceylon Coins and Measures," pp.

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(2) The present Hilda, west of Peshawur, and five miles south of Jellalabad.
(3) "The vihara," says Hardy, "is the residence of a recluse or priest;" and so Davids:--"the clean little hut where the mendicant lives." Our author, however, does not use the Indian name here, but the Chinese characters which express its meaning--tsing shay, "a pure dwelling." He uses the term occasionally, and evidently, in this sense; more frequently it occurs in his narrative in connexion with the Buddhist relic worship; and at first I translated it by "shrine" and "shrine-house;" but I came to the conclusion, at last, to employ always the Indian name.

The first time I saw a shrine-house was, I think, in a monastery near Foo-chow;--a small pyramidical structure, about ten feet high, glittering as if with the precious substances, but all, it seemed to me, of tinsel.

It was in a large apartment of the building, having many images in it.