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The Later Han Annals do not mention Chʻü-lê; but in the Wei lio it appears along with Jung-lu, Han-mi, and Pʻi-kʻang as a petty kingdom dependent on Yü-tʻien or Khotan.
Again, Yü-tʻien or Ho-tʻien (Khotan), as it is now called, has been from time immemorial devoted to Mahometanism, as is amply borne out by Illustrated Notices of Western Countries, printed by Imperial authority.
1964, William Samolin, East Turkistan to the Twelfth Century, The Hague: Mouton & Co, →OCLC, →OL, pages 27, 86:
During this period the Hsiung-nu were weak and failed to assert their power in the region. The more powerful states, Shan-shan (75) in the Lop region, So-ch’e (76) (Yarqand) and Yü-t’ien (77) (Khotan) had begun to absorb their lesser neighbors.
(75) 鄯善 (76) 莎車 (77) 于寘
Further reading
Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yütien or Yü-t’ien”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2130, column 3
