have to folio w the wind in perfect uncertainty. During the darkness of night, 

 one only sees the great waves striking each other and shining like Are, 

 whilst shoals of sea monsters of every description surround the ship. The 

 merchants were much perplexed, not knowing what course to steer. The 

 sea was so deep that no sounding could be taken and also there was no place 

 for anchorage. At length, the weather clearing up, they got their right 

 bearings and once more shaped a correct course and proceeded onwards. 

 But if (during the bad weather) they had happened to strike a hielden rock, 

 then there would have been no way to escape alive. Thus they voyaged 

 for about ninety days, when . they arrived at a country called Ya-va-di (*). 

 In this country heretics and Brahmans flourish, but the law of Buddha 

 hardly deserves mentioning. ( 2 ) After having stopped here for five months, 

 Fahien again embarked on another merchant vessel , having also a crew of 200 

 men or so. They took with them fifty days provisions and set sail on the 

 16th day of the 4th month. Whilst Fahien was on board of this ship , they 

 shaped a course N. E. for the province of Canton in China. After a month 

 and some days, at the stroke of two in the middle watch of the night, a 

 black squall suddenly came on, accompanied with pelting rain. The mer- 

 chants and passengers were all terrined. Fahien , at this time also , with great 

 earnestness of mincl, again entreated Avalókitêshvara and all the priesthood 

 of China, praying for the assistance of their divine power to carry them 

 through until claylight. When the day broke, all the Brahmans, consulting 

 together, said: //It is because we have got this Buddhist priest on board 

 with us, that we have no luck and have incurred this great mischief — 

 come let us land this monk on the first island we meet with, for it is not 

 proper that we should all perish for the sake of one man." Butamanwho 

 had taken Fahien under kis care (danapati), then said: //If you land this 



O Mu ^Ê* 1AÈ» ^is name, written Jabadiu by Ptolemaeus, may be an abbreviation 



of Yava Dwipa, but then this abbreviation seems to have been generally used at that time, for if 

 the Hindus on Java had called it by its Ml name, our author, who knew Sanscrit, would have 

 transcribed it according to that form. — Yava Dwipa does not mean, as has been thoughtlessly said 

 and repeated, 'the country of the barley , for the simple reason that barley coiüd not grow there, but 

 instead of barley we must read miïïet, of which there are different varities indigenous in the island, 

 many of them called by the generic name Djawa. It is not impossible that the first Hindus 

 found this cereal used instead of rice and that the latter was introduced by them. 



( 2 ) The Chinese text has: 4jjk tfc> ^K JH. =^" litt. Buddha' s laio not sufficiënt to 



speak of. This does not denote a total absence of Buddhism, but seems to indicate that this religion 

 was practised by very few only. 



