On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c23.s5.2

v2.c23.s5.2

The account in the Life makes the pilgrim set out from Huoh with a party of traders and after a journey of two days (that is probably, about 100 *li*) arrive at Mêng-kan. This country has been identified with Mungan (or Munjan) which "is still a feudatory province under Badakshān, on the slopes of the Hindu kūsh". Yule's remarks on the pilgrim's account are based on the mistake in Julien's translation which gives 4000 *li*, instead of 400 *li*, as the circuit of the district. But Yule's suggestion that the pilgrim's Mêng-kan is the modern Talikhan may perhaps be accepted: it cannot be the Mungān of Macartney's map, or the Minjan of Wood's map.¹