On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c21.s2.2

v2.c21.s2.2

The name of the country here described by our pilgrim is "Kie-schou-ou-khi-lo" in Julien's transcription. This agrees with the reading in the D text which is 羯朱喝祇羅, but instead of the third character of this transcription (read wu or wo) the other texts have 竭, which is properly pronounced wên or mên. The Fang-chih agrees with the D text; and in one text of the Life we have mo (末) instead of chu and the name is given as Ka-mo-wu-k'i-lo. As we are told to pronounce the character for wên here as wo, and as this character is used in another place to transcribe the syllable ut or ū, we should perhaps read the name here Ka-chu-wo-k'i-lo. Julien restores the Indian original as Kajughira, and this restoration has been generally followed, although it seems to leave out the third character. In a note to our text we are told that the popular name for the country was Ka-ying-kie-lo. Julien's reading here was apparently Ka-shêng-kie-lo which may be the correct reading. This would give us an original like Kajangala, and Kajangala or Kajangalā is the name of a place in this neighbourhood mentioned in very early Buddhist Pali texts.¹