On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c21.s12.3

v2.c21.s12.3

Comparing this passage with the narrative in the Life we find that in the latter the direction from Kosala to An-to-lo is given as south-east from the south of the district of the capital, the distance being the same. Julien restones the Sanskrit name of the country as Andhra, which is the correct form, but our pilgrim's transcription is nearer Andar (the Andara of Pliny). His name for the capital, P'ing-k'i (or ch'i)-lo, is restored doubtfully by Julien as Vingila, but it may be for a word like Vinjir or Vingir. According to Cunningham our pilgrim's Andhra is "the modern Telingāma".² Fergusson, who does not know where to place the capital, says that the name here given for it "sounds very like Vengi, which we know was the name of the capital of the Eastern Chalukyas at this period".³ In the Vāyu-Purāna, quoted by Alberuni, we find one Andhra in the south and another in the east, and the name was apparently rather that of a people than of a country.⁴ We find An-tê-lo (Andhra) in some Buddhist works as the name of a frontier district with a language different from that of India.⁵ The Kathā Vatthu commentary often mentions the Andhakā, that is, that men of the Andhra school, but it gives no information as to the exact position of the district.⁶