23.
(10) The staff was, as immediately appears, of Gosirsha Chandana, or "sandal-wood from the Cow's-head mountain," a species of copper-brown sandal-wood, said to be produced most abundantly on a mountain of (the fabulous continent) Ullarakuru, north of mount Meru, which resembles in shape the head of a cow (E.H., pp.

42, 43).

It is called a "pewter staff" from having on it a head and rings and pewter.

See Watters, "China Review," viii, pp.

227, 228, and Williams' Dictionary, under {.}.
(11) Or Sanghati, the double or composite robe, part of a monk's attire, reaching from the shoulders to the knees, and fastened round the waist (E.H., p.