On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c20.9
On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c20.9
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v2.c20.9
The river which Yuan-chuang in this passage says he crossed, going east from the Bodhi Tree district, is called by him Mo-ha. Julien turns this into Mahī, and Cunningham calls the river the Mohana-nadī. But the Chinese Mo-ha cannot be for Mahī, and it is possible it may be for the Sanskrit mahā, great or large, and moha ho may be either a proper name or simply "a large river". We have a mahā ho here in Magadha, and in Chuan XI we have one in the Malva Country.