On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c12.s1.2

v1.c12.s1.2

The Chinese annotator here has translated the name of the country by *Han-fêng* (漢封), and Julien, who reads the characters of the name as *Tchi-na-po-ti* gives the Sanskrit original as "Tchinapati", meaning "Lord of China". But *Han-fêng* means *China-fief* not *China-lord*, and the characters for *p'uh-ti* cannot be taken to represent *pati*. They evidently stand for *bhukti* which is translated by *fêng* in the sense of possession, *portion*.¹ So China-bhukti is the China-allotment, and the China-bhukti-deśa was the district assigned to China, that is to the China hostage according to Yuan-chuang's story.