On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c9.5

v1.c9.5

Yuan-chuang writes this name 濫波, and this apparently is for him the name both of the country and its capital. Some other authors write 嵐婆,¹ and the local pronunciation was perhaps something like Lampa or Lumba. The word is supposed to represent the old Sanskrit Lampā, and the Lambatai of Ptolemy,² and the district has been identified with the modern Laghman (or Lughman), the Lamghanat of Baber. This emperor mentions the curious tradition which derives the name Lamghanat from Lam, father of Noah, whose tomb was supposed to be in the country.³ But no probable explanation of the name Lampa (or Lumba) seems to have been given, and the word is probably foreign, that is, non-Indian.