On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c26.s2.29

v2.c26.s2.29

The question concerning the position of Yuan-chwang's Kośāmbī is a very difficult one (I, 366), and the materials now available do not justify any positive identification. I adhere to the view that the famous Buddhist town was somewhere on an arc distant about 90 miles, more or less, from Allāhābād in a direction between south and west, and am now rather disposed to search for the site at the extremity of the Bandā District to the N. E. of Ajaigarh. The statements of the Records and Life on the subject are specially detailed and precise, and cannot be ignored.