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Kunlun has about 10,000 meanings, also in Chinese. I recently added it to Wikipedia,[0] when reading a 1000 year old text I am translating[1] that seems to reference eastern Indonesia with the name.

ζ˜†δΎ–εœ‹ ("The Country of Kunlun"), an ancient Chinese term apparently broadly used to refer to a general swathe of southerly island Southeast Asia circa the Moluccas, equivalent to period Sanskrit Dvipatala or Pali Dipattala (also Jipattala, Nipattala).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunlun [1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Manshu




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