On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c12.17

v1.c12.17

The Cheh-ka (磔迦) of this passage is Lih (礫)-ka in one text of the Life, and this latter form is found in other works. It is possible that the original for both transcriptions was a word like Tikka or Tekka, ch and l sounds being both used to represent the ṭ of Sanskrit. The term in our text has been restored as Tchēka, Ṭakka and Ṭaki. It designated a country which was not in India, but was one of the foreign states which lay between Lampa and India, and should have been included in the pilgrim's general survey at the end of the last chuan.¹