Every year there is one such offering, and each class has its own day for it.

Students of the mahayana present offerings to the Prajna-paramita,( 21) to Manjusri,( 22) and to Kwan-she-yin.( 23) When the monks have done receiving their annual tribute (from the harvests),( 24) the Heads of the Vaisyas and all the Brahmans bring clothes and other such articles as the monks require for use, and distribute among them.

The monks, having received them, also proceed to give portions to one another.

From the nirvana of Buddha,( 25) the forms of ceremony, laws, and rules, practised by the sacred communities, have been handed down from one generation to another without interruption.
From the place where (the travellers) crossed the Indus to Southern India, and on to the Southern Sea, a distance of forty or fifty thousand le, all is level plain.

There are no large hills with streams (among them); there are simply the waters of the rivers.
NOTES (1) Muttra, "the peacock city;" lat.