On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c21.s5.7

v2.c21.s5.7

Of the six countries mentioned in the passage under notice as heard of, but not visited by our pilgrim, Shih-li-ch'a-to-lo, which has been restored as Śrīkshetra or Śrīkshatra, is the Shih-li-cha-to-lo of I-ching. This has been identified with the Burmese Tharekhettara or the district of Prome.⁵ But this identification requires the substitution of south-east for the pilgrim's north-east which is the reading of all the texts, of the Life, and of the Fang-chih. For this reason and because Prome is far from the sea the identification cannot be accepted. Śrīkṣatra according to the pilgrim's information should correspond roughly to the Tipperah district. The *Ka-mo-lang-ka*, restored as Kāmalankā, is supposed to be I-ching's *Lang-ku-su*, and it is said to be "Pegu and the Delta of the Irawadi". *To-lo-po-ti* is the city with this name to which Shan-ts'ai went in order to consult Mahādeva its patron god.¹ It is also supposed to be I-ching's *She-ho-po-ti* (社和鉢底). M. Chavannes gives the first character the exceptional sound *tu*, and Mr. Takakusu has apparently done the same.² Our pilgrim's *To-lo-po-ti* has been restored as "Darapati?", and as Dvārapati or Dvāravati, "the Sanskrit name for Ayuthya or Ayudhya the ancient capital of Siam", but the characters seem to stand for Tālapati, that is, Mahādeva.³ I-ching's *She-ho-po-ti* may be for a name like Javapati. The *I-shang-na-pu-lo* of our text, restored as Īśānapura, has been identified with Cambodia and with the *Poh-nan* or *Fu-nan* of I-ching. *Mo-ha-chan-p'o* or Mahā-champā is the *Chan-p'o* of I-ching corresponding to the modern Cochin-China and part of Annam. *Yen-mo-na-chou* is evidently for Yamana-dvīpa, but no probable identification has yet been proposed, for it cannot possibly have been the island of Java.