On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c14.3

v1.c14.3

The reading "north-west" at the beginning of this passage is that of the Common texts of the Records and Life; but the D text of the Records has "south-east". This agrees with Fa-hsien's narrative¹, confirms the correction proposed by Cunningham², and, as Kanauj is to the south-east of Sankassa, is evidently the proper reading. Moreover in the itinerary of the Sung pilgrim Kanyakubja is two stages (*ch'êng* 程) to the east of Saṅkāśya³. Fa-hsien makes the distance between these two places to be seven yojanas or above 40 miles and this agrees roughly with Yuan-chuang’s 200 li.