On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c5.39

v1.c5.39

The North Island is the Kurudvipa, the Uttara-Kuru of other writers: it is also the Yü-tan-yueh (viet) of the sūtra already quoted and of many other Buddhist texts. This Yü-tan-viet may perhaps represent a word like Uttamavat.¹