On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c22.s18.2

v2.c22.s18.2

Julien restores the name of this country as Langala, but as the last character is sometimes omitted, the name may have been something like Lankar. For the name of the capital Julien suggests *Sūnurīśvara* as a possible restoration. But this is based on the corrupt reading of *nu* (菟) in the Chinese transcription. This character is not an authorized one, and the reading in all my texts is *t'u* (禿 or 菟), which gives us *Su-t'u-li-ssŭ-fa-lo*. This is possibly for a word like Strī-īśvara or "Woman Paramount", or the *su-t'u-li* may be for *sthul* or *sthur*. The country according to St. Martin answers to the eastern part of *Mēkran*, and "a branch of the Langga tribe still exists in the north of Biluchistan near Katch-Gandava".² Cunningham's remarks on this country and its capital are in his usual style, and need not be quoted.¹ In the "T'ang Shu" we find mention of the country Lang-ka-lo with its capital Su-t'u-li-ssŭ-fa-lo, but there it is apparently in the south-east of India.² The "West-Woman-Country" of our text is evidently the "Strī-rājya" or "Woman-Kingdom" which is in the north-west division of the Brihat Samhitā. ³