On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c26.s2.43

v2.c26.s2.43

Mr. Watters corrects Julien’s transliteration of I-lan-na-po-fato as Hiraṇyaparvata, and suggests that the first element in the name is the Sanskrit *īraṇa*, meaning ‘a piece of wild or barren land’. This may be substantially right, but the dictionaries give the word as *iriṇa* or *īriṇa*. Whatever be the accurate form of the name, the locality indicated certainly is Monghyr (Mungīr). (Watters, II, 180).