-law'
bears to 'law' than that which 'metaphysics' bears to 'physics'"
(Hibbert Lectures, p. 49). However this be, it was about the vinaya
works that Fa-Hsien was chiefly concerned. 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. 163) says:--"One of the most ancient institutions of
Buddhist discipline, requiring all ecclesiastics to spend the rainy
season in a monastery in devotional exercises. Chinese Buddhists
naturally substituted the hot season for the rainy (from the 16th day
of the 5th to the 15th of the 9th Chinese month)."

(8) During the troubled period of the Tsin dynasty, there were five
(usurping) Leang sovereignties in the western part of the empire ({.}
{.}). The name Leang remains in the department of Leang-chow in the
northern part of Kan-suh. The "southern Leang" arose in 397 under a
Tuh-fah Wu-ku, who was succeeded in 399 by a brother, Le-luh-koo; and
he again by his brother, the Now-t'an of the text, in 402, who was not
yet king therefore when Fa-Hsien and his friends reached his capital.
How he is represented as being so may be accounted for in various
ways, of which it is not necessary to write.

(9) Chang-yih is still the name of a district in Kan-chow department,
Kan-suh. It is a long way north and west from Lan-chow, and not far
from the Great Wall. Its king at this time was, probably, Twan-yeh of
"the northern Leang."

(10) Dana is the name for religious charity, the first of the six
paramitas, or means of attaining to nirvana; and a danapati is "one
who practises dana and thereby crosses