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Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

CHAPTER I
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He wanted a good code of the rules for the government of "the Order" in all its internal and external relations.
(5) Lung embraced the western part of Shen-se and the eastern part of Kan-suh.

The name remains in Lung Chow, in the extreme west of Shen-se.
(6) K'een-kwei was the second king of "the Western Ts'in." His family was of northern or barbarous origin, from the tribe of the Seen-pe, with the surname of K'eih-fuh.

The first king was Kwo-kin, and received his appointment from the sovereign of the chief Ts'in kingdom in 385.

He was succeeded in 388 by his brother, the K'een-kwei of the text, who was very prosperous in 398, and took the title of king of Ts'in.

Fa-Hsien would find him at his capital, somewhere in the present department of Lan-chow, Kan-suh.
(7) Under varshas or vashavasana (Pali, vassa; Spence Hardy, vass), Eitel (p.


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