135) rather approves the suggestion of "Tashkurgan in Sirikul" for it.

As it took Fa-Hsien twenty-five days to reach it, it must have been at least 150 miles from Khoten.
(4) The king is described here by a Buddhistic phrase, denoting the possession of viryabala, "the power of energy; persevering exertion--one of the five moral powers" (E.H., p.

170).
(5) Nor has Yu-hwuy been clearly identified.

Evidently it was directly south from Tsze-hoh, and among the "Onion" mountains.

Watters hazards the conjecture that it was the Aktasch of our present maps.
(6) This was the retreat already twice mentioned as kept by the pilgrims in the summer, the different phraseology, "quiet rest," without any mention of the season, indicating their approach to India, E.H., p.168.Two, if not three, years had elapsed since they left Ch'ang-gan.