The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang c8.s4.1

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On leaving Andhra, Hwen Thsang proceeded to the south through forests and over desert plains for 1000 *li*, or 167 miles, to *To.na.kie.tse.kia*, which M. Julien renders by *Dhanakacheka*. But I have already pointed out in my account of *Tse-kia*, or *Taki*, in the Panjâb, that the Chinese syllable *tse* is used to represent the Indian cerebral *ṭ*, which would make the name *Dhana-kaṭaka*. I have also referred to the inscriptions in the caves of Kânhari and Kârle with the name of *Dhana-kakaṭa*, which I have suggested as the true reading of the Chinese word, by the transposition of the last two syllables.¹ The name of *Dhanakaṭa* is found in no less than four of the cave inscriptions, in all of which it has been read by Dr. Stevenson as the name of a man, whom he calls *Xenokrates*, a Greek. But according to my reading of these inscriptions, the name is undoubtedly that of the city or country to which the recorders of the inscriptions belonged. As these inscriptions are short, I will, in justice to Dr. Stevenson, here quote them.