India 3

From this place they travelled south-east, passing by a succession of many monasteries, with a lots of monks. After passing all these places, they came to a country named Muttra. They still followed the course of the P'oo na river, on the banks of which, left and right, there were twenty monasteries, which might contain three thousand monks; and (here) the Law of Buddha was still more flourishing. Everywhere, from the Sandy Desert, in all the countries of India, the kings had been firm believers in that Law. When they make their offerings to a community of monks they take off their royal caps, and along with their relatives and ministers, supply them with food with their own hands. The laws and ways according to which the kings presented their offerings when Buddha was in the world, have been handed down to the present day.