118).

Gomati, the name of this monastery, means "rich in cows." (7) A denomination for the monks as vimala, "undefiled" or "pure." Giles makes it "the menials that attend on the monks," but I have not met with it in that application.
(8) K'eeh-ch'a has not been clearly identified.

Remusat made it Cashmere; Klaproth, Iskardu; Beal makes it Kartchou; and Eitel, Khas'a, "an ancient tribe on the Paropamisus, the Kasioi of Ptolemy." I think it was Ladak, or some well-known place in it.

Hwuy-tah, unless that name be an alias, appears here for the first time.
(9) Instead of "four," the Chinese copies of the text have "fourteen;" but the Corean reading is, probably, more correct.
(10) There may have been, as Giles says, "maids of honour;" but the character does not say so.
(11) The Sapta-ratna, gold, silver, lapis lazuli, rock crystal, rubies, diamonds or emeralds, and agate.

See Sacred Books of the East (Davids' Buddhist Suttas), vol.xi., p.