On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c23.s13.3

v2.c23.s13.3

The *Ku-lang-na* of this passage, restored as Kuraṇa, has been identified by Yule with the modern Kuran or Koran, in the upper part of the valley of the Kokcha and "a sub-division of the province of Jerm, lying among the spurs of the Hindu Kūsh. In fact, it includes the Lazuli Mines".¹ Other forms of Chinese transcription are Kü-lan (俱蘭) and *Kü-lo-nu* (俱羅弩).² It is described as adjoining Tokhara, as being 3000 *li* in circuit, bounded on the south by the Great Snow Mountains (the Hindu Kush) and on the north by the river Kü-lu (俱魯). In A.D. 646 *Hu-t'i-p'o*, the rāja of this country, sent an envoy to T'ang T'ai Tsung bearing a letter in Indian writing.