On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c13.s1.2

v1.c13.s1.2

The Life, which calls this country *Lu-k'in-na*, makes it to be 400 *li* to the east of Sthānesvara. Our pilgrim's transcription has been restored as Srughna, but this does not seem to be right. Another transcription is *Su-lu-kie (ka)-k'ün*, and this and the transcription in the text seem to point to an original like Srukkhin or Srughin. Cunningham, taking the "from this" of the text to mean from the Govinda monastery, makes the 400 *li* to be counted from that monastery and accordingly gives the distance from Sthānesvara to Srughna as only 300 *li*.² But the Life, and the Fang-chih, make Yuan-chuang start from and count from Sthānesvara, and as it seems likely that Yuan-chuang did not go to the Govinda monastery, I think we should understand the "from this" of the text to mean from the capital. Cunningham identifies the city Srughna with the modern village of Sugh which "is surrounded on three sides by the bed of the old Jumna". But as the measurements and distances given by Yuan-chuang, as usual, do not agree with those required by Cunningham, we may perhaps regard the identification as not quite established.