On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c22.s3.2

v2.c22.s3.2

The *Life* makes the pilgrim travel north-west from Mahārāṣṭra, and this is probably more correct than the west of the above passage. The name of the country here transcribed was restored by Julien as "Barou-gatchéva" which St. Martin made "Varoukatcheva",² and Cunningham regarded it as the "Bhārukachha" of the old inscriptions.³ This country is no doubt the Bharukaccha of the Dīpavamsa, and later Pali books,⁴ but in the form Bharukacchapa as found in the Bṛihat Samhitā.⁵ It is the modern Bharōch or Broach at the mouth of the Narbada, the *Nai-mo-t'ê* of our pilgrim. From Ajaṇṭā to Broach the distance is about 200 miles, and the direction is north-westerly. So we are perhaps justified in regarding the "from this" of the text as meaning from the mountain of Āchāra's monastery, a place to which the pilgrim would naturally be attracted, and at which he may have spent some days.