On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c23.s4.3

v2.c23.s4.3

The name of the country written Huoh (活) in the text of this passage, is in one passage of the C text of the Life, given as Kuah (括). These two characters were formerly both read Kuah or Kuoh, and it is probable that the name here transcribed was something like Kuoh or Guoh, perhaps the "Ghour" of M. Saint-Martin. It will be noticed that the bearing of this country from Khost agrees with the narrative in the first chuan of the Records. According to the Life the capital was on the south bank of the Po-chu or Oxus; and the T'ang-Shu treats Huoh as the name of a tribe.¹ Yule gives good reasons for rejecting previous identifications, and for finding the modern representative of our pilgrim's Huoh in the present Kunduz, the Kundez of Baber.² In the D text of the Records (and in the Fang-chih) the circuit of this country is given as 2000 li, not 3000 li as in the other texts.