The Chinese character {.}, which he employed, may be rendered rightly by "fate" or "destiny;" but the fate is not unintelligent.

The term implies a factor, or fa-tor, and supposes the ordination of Heaven or God.

A Confucian idea for the moment overcame his Buddhism.
(5) Lo-e, or Rohi, is a name for Afghanistan; but only a portion of it can be here intended.
(6) We are now therefore in 404.
(7) No doubt the present district of Bannu, in the Lieutenant-Governorship of the Punjab, between 32d 10s and 33d 15s N.
lat., and 70d 26s and 72d E.lon.See Hunter's Gazetteer of India, i, p.

393.
(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, as described in chapter vii..