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INDEX   337

Kubera, Hindu god of wealth, 227 Kublai, Emperor, 35, 250

Kucha, oasis, I1, 279, 287; remains at,

281-283; language spoken at, 282 Kuchean or Tokhari manuscripts, 215 Kulja, Russian occupation of, 36 Kumedh, 293

Kum-kuduk, well of, 162

Kum-tagh, 165

Kumtura, cave shrines of, 282

K un-lun range, 2, 4, 6-9, I I, 24, 54, 72, 1 to, 174, 271, 272, 289; foothills of, 5o; glaciers of, 51-53; difficulties in finding an old route across, 53

Kun-tigmaz, 290, 291

Kuruk-darya (the `Dry River'), 14, 134,

150, 151, 154, 156, 158, 248, 275;
explorations in the dried-up delta of,

147-149; date of the abandonment of the site, 149; riverine changes in the terminal branches, 166; mapping its course, 273

Kuruk-tagh (`Dry Mountains'), 9, to,

137, 142, 151, 157, 165, 256, 260, 270; explorations and survey work in, 26o,

271-277

Kushana or Indo-Scythian princes, 91,

93

Kustana, or Khotan, 92

Kuvera, see Vaisravana

Lacquer-ware fragments found, 100 Ladak, 6, 53

Lajirkh, 326

Lal Singh, Rai Bahadur, 156, 157,

251, 26o, 271-273, 280, 289 Langar pass, 301, 302, 308

Leather, embroidered, found, 100; armour made from, 114

Le Coq, Professor von, 260, 261, 263, 282, 285

Lhasa, 8

Liang-chou, 19

Liao Ta-to-ye, magistrate, 130

Li Kuang-li, 22

Limes, its technical meaning, 178; system of the Roman Empire, 177; ancient Chinese border-wall, see Old Wall

Li-sieh, 67

Little Pamir Lake, 46

L6czy, Professor de, 193

Lokapalas, in Buddhist paintings, 226228; wooden statuette of, 279

Lop-liks, semi-nomadic herdsmen and fishermen, 109, 146

Lop-nor desert, 4, 109, 116, 129, 274; the dried-up salt-encrusted sea-bed, 8, 14, 15, 22, 109, 134, 275; the marshes,

6, 8, tog, I I o, 130, I31, 134; Chinese trade route through, 25, 26, 140, 143; older forms of the local name, I15; the author's journey across, 131-136; wind erosion in, 133, 137, 142; tracking the ancient route across the dried-up Lop Sea, 145-162; traversing Marco Polo's route from the Lop-nor marshes to Tun-huang, 163-192; Marco Polo's description of the `Desert of Lop', 164. See also Lou-lan; Shanshan

Lorimer, Miss F., 218

Lou-lan, or Lop-nor, 14, 15, 20, 248, 271;

ruins at and around, 14, 27, i to, 275; the journey from Charkhlik to, 129136; excavations and discoveries at, 136-144; proof of the site of the station designated Lou-lan, 14o; the Chinese trade route, 140, 143, 145, 276; the indigenous designation of the locality was Kroraina, 141 ; water carried to the site by the Kuruk-darya, 149-151; further explorations and discoveries,

150; finds at the ancient burial-grounds near, 151, 273

Lowarai pass, 41

Lun-t'ai, 281

Lu Ting-shih, 169

Macartney, Sir George, 48, 147, 286

Maës Titianus, 26, 292

Mahasthama, Bodhisattva, 233, 236

Mahayana Buddhism, 233; pictorial art

of, 219

Malakand pass, 40

Manchu dynasty, 35

Manichaean texts, from the Caves of the

Thousand Buddhas, 2I4 Manichaeans, Turkish version of the

confession prayer of, 216 Manichaeism, 33, 214, 259

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Manjusri, represented in Buddhist painting, 225, 230, 234, 236

Manuscripts, see Brahmi; Chinese; Kharoshthi; Khotanese; Kuchean; Manichaean; Runic Turkish; Sanskrit; Sogdian; Syriac; Turkish; Uigar

Mao-mei, oasis, 245, 247, 250-252

Marakanda, 330

Maral-bashi, 284; ruins near, 285

Marco Polo, see Polo, Marco

Marghilan, 294

Marinus of Tyre, 26, 127, 292, 295

Marjanai pass, 298

Markan-su, 290

Maspero, Professor, 267

Mastuj, 42

Mastuj, river, 43

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