through the ts’ung or “onion” mountains to k’eeh-ch’a; — probably skardo, or some city more to the east in ladak

when the processions of images in the fourth month were over, sang-shao, by himself alone, followed a tartar who was an earnest follower of the law,1 and proceeded towards kophene.2 fa-hien and the others went forward to the kingdom of tsze-hoh, which it took them twenty-five days to reach.3 its king was a strenuous follower of our law,4 and had (around him) more than a thousand monks, mostly students of the mahayana. here (the travellers) abode fifteen days, and then went south for four days, when they found themselves among the ts’ung-ling mountains, and reached the country of yu-hwuy,5 where they halted and kept their retreat.6 when this was over, they went on among the hills7 for twenty-five days, and got to k’eeh-ch’a,8 there rejoining hwuy-king9 and his two companions.