On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c21.s7.3

v2.c21.s7.3

Notwithstanding the statements of our text, however, we must consider him to have travelled in the manner indicated in the Life. His location of Karṇasuvarṇa in the passage before us is not in agreement with the rest of the narrative, and we must apparently regard that place as 700 *li* to the north-east instead of north-west of Tāmralipti. The name of the country, wrongly rendered by the pilgrim "Gold ear", and the name of its wicked king Śaśāṅka, with whom we have met already, are found in the Gupta Inscriptions.¹ The country was evidently at one time a large and powerful kingdom, and a rival of Magadha.