People with a basic knowledge of world geography believed that to the south of Mount Sumeru in India there grew a jambu tree. The tree was 2000 li high (a modern li is about one third of a mile), and the span of its branches was also 2000 li. The tree stretched right up into the sky and its shadow fell on the moon.
國際常識豐富的人認為，天竺國須彌山南，有棵閻浮樹，樹高兩千里，枝映兩千里；大樹直聳天空，樹影映於月中。