On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c22.s17.2

v2.c22.s17.2

According to the Life it was from Suraṭh that the pilgrim going westward travelled to this country, and from Po-fa-to he went south-east back to Nālandā. The Chinese transcription *A-tien-p‘o-chih-lo* has been tentatively restored by Julien as Adhyavakila, but this cannot be right. The sounds of the characters give us rather a word like Ādinava-chila which is a Sanskrit compound. Cunningham makes the country to be “the fourth province of Sindh which in the seventh century was Kachh”, and he proposes to restore the Indian name as “Audumbatira or Audumbara, which Professor Lassen gives as the name of the people of Kachh”. Julien restores the name of the capital as Khajīśvara, and Lassen makes it Kachchheśvara, which is probably the correct word; but Cunningham's restoration Koṭiśvara is quite impossible.¹