On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c22.s1.2

v2.c22.s1.2

In the Chinese text of this passage for the Kung-kin (or kan)-na-pu-lo of the other texts, the D has *Tu* (that is, *Da*) han-na-pu-lo, the Life has *Kan* (or *Kin*)-na-pu-lo, and the Fang-chih has *Kung-ta-na-pu-lo*; but we may regard Kung-kin (or kan)-na-pu-lo, as the correct reading, the variations being probably misprints or copyists' errors. The original name has been restored as Koṅkanapur, and the restoration has been generally accepted. In all texts of the Records, and in the Fang-chih, the direction from Draviḍa is given as north, but the Life makes it to have been north-west. M. Saint-Martin, Cunningham, and their successors all adopt the direction given in the Life, passing over the statement in the Records. Saint-Martin thinks it possible that Banavasi (or Vānavasa) may have been the Koṅkana-city of our pilgrim.¹ Cunningham suggests "Annagundhi on the northern bank of the Tungabhadra river" as the capital of the country, and Fergusson can only refer the capital to some place in Mysore.² Mr. Burgess is disposed to seek for Koṅkanapur about Kopal or Kokanūr (? Koṅkanūr) which is 310 miles as the crow flies from Kāñchi and 335 miles from Nāsik;" this seems to be also the present opinion of Dr. Fleet who was at one time disposed to identify Koṅkanapur with Karnūl.³ But these identifications seem to be all beset with difficulties. The country Koṅkaṇa was in the southern division of the Bṛihat Saṃhitā, and Alberuni places it in the south near the sea.⁴ If we could adopt the reading of the D text, viz-Tu (茶) or Ch'a (茶) for Kung, the original would be a word like Dakkanapura or Thakkanapura.