Through him, by B.C.115, a regular intercourse was established between China and the thirty-six kingdoms or states of that quarter;--see Mayers' Chinese Reader's Manual, p.5.The memoir of Chang K'een, translated by Mr.Wylie from the Books of the first Han dynasty, appears in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, referred to already.
(5) Less is known of Kan Ying than of Chang K'een.

Being sent in A.D.
88 by his patron Pan Chao on an embassy to the Roman empire, he only got as far as the Caspian sea, and returned to China.

He extended, however, the knowledge of his countrymen with regard to the western regions;--see the memoir of Pan Chao in the Books of the second Han, and Mayers' Manual, pp.

167, 168.
(6) Where and when?
Probably at his first resting-place after crossing the Indus.
(7) This may refer to Sakyamuni's becoming Buddha on attaining to nirvana, or more probably to his pari-nirvana and death.
(8) As king P'ing's reign lasted from B.C.750 to 719, this would place the death of Buddha in the eleventh century B.C., whereas recent inquirers place it between B.C.480 and 470, a year or two, or a few years, after that of Confucius, so that the two great "Masters" of the east were really contemporaries.

But if Rhys Davids be correct, as I think he is, in fixing the date of Buddha's death within a few years of 412 B.C.