grass") which gave a very poisonous substance used on arrow tips - probably from an aconite plant. Xiye is recorded in the Book of the Later Han as being distinct from Zihe and having 2,500 households, more than 10,000 people and 3,000 men able to bear arms.

The Chinese pilgrim monk, Song Yun, passed through the Kingdom of Zhujuban on his way from Khotan in 519 CE. He described it as being five days' journey around and that