On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c7.s5.3

v1.c7.s5.3

A note to our text tells us that the Samokan country was called in Chinese K'ang-kuo (康 國) which is the K'ang and K'ang-kü Kuo of the Han and other histories. This K'ang-kü territory had been at one time a large region embracing the districts since known as Ferghana, Kohistan, Tashkend, Samarkand, and other States.² But it had become split up among several members of the Shao-wu clan, and in the beginning of the seventh century A. D. the K'ang country was, roughly speaking, that region bounded on the north by the Chash (or Tash) kingdom, on the east by Kohistan, on the south by Kesh, and on the west by Bokhara.