On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c22.s7.2

v2.c22.s7.2

The *Fa-la-p'i* of this passage, said in a note to the text to have been called also "North Lo-lo", has been restored as Valabhi (or Balabhi). Cunningham and others regard Bhaonagar (Bhaunagar) in the east part of Gujarāt as the site of the city Valabhi,¹ but Fergusson gives good reasons for not accepting this identification.² The "Lo-lo" of the Chinese annotator to our text may perhaps be for Lāṭa the name of a country which "corresponds to what might now be called Central and southern Gujarāt".³ In his "Indian Empire" (p. 229) Hunter writes that "the Valabhi's ruled over Cutch, north-western Bombay, and Málwá from 480 to after 722 A. D.".