He might be more than fifty years old, and all the kingdom looked up to him.

By means of this one man, the Law of Buddha was widely made known, and the followers of other doctrines did not find it in their power to persecute the body of monks in any way.
By the side of the tope of Asoka, there has been made a mahayana monastery, very grand and beautiful; there is also a hinayana one; the two together containing six or seven hundred monks.

The rules of demeanour and the scholastic arrangements( 6) in them are worthy of observation.
Shamans of the highest virtue from all quarters, and students, inquirers wishing to find out truth and the grounds of it, all resort to these monasteries.

There also resides in this monastery a Brahman teacher, whose name also is Manjusri,( 7) whom the Shamans of greatest virtue in the kingdom, and the mahayana Bhikshus honour and look up to.
The cities and towns of this country are the greatest of all in the Middle Kingdom.

The inhabitants are rich and prosperous, and vie with one another in the practice of benevolence and righteousness.