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0107 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 / Page 107 (Color Image)

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biographies of Djao-a-ko-p'an, A-r-szelan (Yuen-shi, ch. cxxiii.), and others, these
tribes are mentioned under the names of Ha-la-djang and Ch'a-han-djang, as the
Mongols used to call them ; and in the biography of Wu-liang-ho-t'ai. [Uriang
kadai], the conqueror of Yun-nan, it is stated that the capital of the Black Barbarians
was called Yach'i. It is described as a city surrounded by lakes from three
sides."—H. C.]

Regarding Rashiduddin's application of the name Kandahár or Gandhára to
Yun-nan, and curious points connected therewith, I must refer to a paper of mine in
the J. R. A. Society (N.S. IV. 356). But I may mention that in the ecclesiastical
translation of the classical localities of Indian Buddhism to Indo-China, which is