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A TRANSLATION OF THE KEDDAH ANNALS. 
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Chinese Embassy to the Scythians.... . 
Du Guines says that the King of Scientso or India sent *1 
presents to the Emperor of China by sea about the i 
15 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ® ^ ^ 9 • 9 ^ #99# p##999 
The King of Kapili sent Ambassadors to China the") 
the chief of whom was a Buddhist in (*).. | 
Again the King of the Pali or of Magadha sent an 
Embassy,.*.*,. ...... 
King of Kapila A. D, 466 and Kandahar ( 2 ).. 
Embassies were sent from Oodiana to China in the 
following consecutive periods( 3 ).. 
Likewise.from the Kingdom of Soom A. D. 441 and 
of Ghandara both in India A.D. 455.. 
Magadha A. D 642 [M. Landresse— No. XII J. R. 
A, S. p. 346,«••*.* «u* ...... 
Cosmas Indieopleustes, says that Ceylon was the 
emporium of the trade betwixt China and the Gulf 
of Arabia and Persia in ....... .... . 
Another Embassy from Oodiana or else Magadha or 
Behar.*,.** 
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Ambassadors from Southern India informed King*Se 
nan Woo of China ■ that India then carried on 
trade with the Roman empire and Syria ( 4 ) 
Arabs traded briskly betwixt Omar in the Persian) 
Gulf and China from ( 5 ). #itt ? 
Chinese Embassy to Magadha,*.. 
Arabs traded to China and the Eastern Islands in ( 6 ) 
Sykes says that China did not get this name until,... 
Chin was the name given to China by the Persians and 
Arabs and also by the people of the Indian Archipe- 
lago.(*) It appears from the Mahawauso that the name 
China was not imposed until about—-B. C... 
It is stated by Sir W. Jones somewhere in the Asiatic 
Researches that the Chinas were a caste of Hindoos, 
(Buddhists rather) who separated themselves from 
the Indiana and proceeded to China. 
An Embassy from Outchang or Oudiyara to China 
Crawfurd observes that Dhirma fled from India to 
rn Wilford A. R. v. IX p. 44 & 297. 
Chinese author Ma Twan Lia, 
3 ] Lt. Col. Sykes quoting Chinese authorities opened by M. Landresse 
and other French writers» 
r«i Chinese records Wan Hin and Thi-ung Kaou M. Landresse. 
Mahavranso by Tumour 
Crawfurd, 
7 ] Crawfurd Archipelago v, Ill. 
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