On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c13.s2.29

v1.c13.s2.29

The P'o-lo-hih-mo-pu-lo of this passage has been restored by Julien, who here transliterates P'o-lo-hi-mo, as Brahmapura; and the restoration, said by Cunningham to be correct, has been generally accepted. Although P'o-lo-hih-mo is not the usual transcription for Brahma, we may perhaps regard these sounds as standing here for this word. Brahmapura is the name of a city which is in the north-east division of the Brihat Samhitā², but in our author it is the name of a country. Cunningham, who treats the *north* of our text as a mistake for *north-east*, finds the country in “the districts of Garhwāl and Kumaon”.³ It is not very clear whether the pilgrim meant us to understand that he started on his journey to this country from Mayūra, or from Matipura. The Fang-Chih took the former as the starting-place, but it is perhaps better to regard Matipur as the "this" of the text from which the pilgrim goes north 300 *li*. This construction is in agreement with the Life which has no mention of Mayūra.