The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c9.11

c9.11

The question may be considered as settled, so far as such matters can be settled, by the ruling of Professor Chavannes that 'deux orthographes sont admissibles; ou bien l'orthographe scientifique *Hiuen-Tsang*, ou bien l'orthographe conforme à la prononciation pékinoise *Hiuen-tchoang* [=*chwāng* in English]'.³ It must, of course, be remembered that to a French reader the initial *H* is in practice silent. Professor de Lacouperie also held that Hiuen Tsang was the best mode of spelling the name, and I have therefore adopted it. Beal's spelling, Hiuen Tsiang, which his books have made more or less familiar to English readers, is nearly the same.