On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c7.s5.49

v1.c7.s5.49

This is the reading of the A, B, and D texts, but instead of *Fa-ti* the C text has *Su*(戍)-ti in on place and *Wu* (or *Mu* 戊)-ti in another. Then the *Life*, which also reads *Fah-ti*, reduces the distance from *Bōkh* from 400 to 100 *li*. The usual note to the text tells us that the Chinese name for the country was "Hsi-an-kuo" or "West An kingdom." In the *T'ang-Shu* we find the above *Wu* (or *Mu*)-ti given as the name of one of the nine Shao-wu chiefs; and it also mentions a *Su-ti* district in this region.¹ Taking *Fah-ti* as the reading we may regard this transcription as possibly representing a name like *Paptei*. St. Martin finds the modern representative of Fah-ti in Bētik, “lieu situé sur la droite de l’Oxus, à une trentaine de lieues au sud-ouest de Boukhara.” But we should probably regard the *Fu-ti* of our text as having had a situation in the neighbourhood of the present Darganata district on the west side of the Oxus. This Fa-ti (or Su-ti) is perhaps the principality designated *Niao-na-ga* or *Wu-na-ga* (烏 or 烏那遏) which was to the west of the Oxus about 400 *li* South-west from the *An* country.²