19G Sarat Cliaiidra Das— Buddhist mid other legends about Khoten. [No. 3, 
city of Wutlien (Khoten) he spent one night with his wife, and there 
she was delivered of a child possessed of good signs. The fortune- 
tellers told the king that the child was destined to rule the kingdom 
before his (Asoka’s) death. The king out of anger ordered the infant 
to be thrown away. The mother interceded but as the monarch would 
not retract the order, the child was cast on the ground. Owing to the 
merits of the child, there sprang out a teat from the ground, sucking 
which, it throve and grew up. Being suckled by the teat of the ground 
he was called Salana. It is said that when the mistress of king Asoka 
was bathing in a pleasure grove in Magadha, she happened to see Yaisra- 
man, passing through the sky, and when her eyes met his, she conceived 
this child. At this time Che-he-Wang king of China who was an in¬ 
carnate Bodhisattwa had got only 999 sons, although he was to have 
1000. He now prayed to Vaisramana for another son to make up the 
number, sa 3 dng that he would send him to rule over Li-yul which had 
been touched by Buddha’s feet. Vaisramana presented Salana to him 
and asked him to accept him as the son, 
A ccount of Li-yul (from Tibetan sources ). 
The Emperor of China Che-he-Wang (che-Hwante) sent one of his 
sons (Salana) with 10,000 troops in search of Li-yul ; proceeding to¬ 
wards the west Salana arrived at Me-kar in Li-yul. Just at that time 
Yaksha the minister of king Asoka, who was in banishment, came to 
Li-yul with his parents, his brother and 700 followers in search of lands. 
When they were encamped above the river Shel-chhale Gongma of 
Wu-then, two of Salana’s servants who had gone there in search of a 
runaway cow met them. The reason of their coming to Li-yul being 
known, and also it being a common interest of both to hold it, Salana, 
Yaksha and their followers agreed to remain as king, minister and 
subjects in the valley of Wu-then. The parties conferred at a place 
called Hanguji below Kora, A short time after this, they disagreed as 
to the division of the country. In the quarrel the gods (Vaisraman 
and Srideni) interceded. All the country below the river of Wu-then, 
i. e. Shel-chhu Gong-ma, and below Dolla Me-kar and Kamshing were 
given to Salana and his followers and thenceforward they belonged to 
the Chinese ; and all the lands above the river Shel-chhu Gong-ma were 
given to Yaksha and his followei’S which thenceforth belonged to 
Aryavarta. Thus the country between the two Shel-chhu rivers 
being owned by the king, minister and subjects both of Aryavarta 
and China, according to their order and precedence they settled in it 
and founded cities and towns. The central place where the Chinese 
and Aryans came in contact with each other being the country of Li, 
