On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c26.s2.10

v2.c26.s2.10

Nothwithstanding Mr. Watters’ sarcastic criticism that certain discrepancies in distances and bearings are ‘not insuperable difficulties to an enthusiastic Indian archaeologist’ (I, 249) desirous of identifying the Salt Range region with the pilgrim’s kingdom of Simhapura, I am convinced that Cunningham and Stein were right in making the identification. Simhapura is described as ‘a network of mountain defiles’ lying midway, as measured by the number of marches, between Jālandhara and Taxila (Beal, *Life*, p. 191); and this description can apply only to the Salt Range.