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0208	Innermost Asia : vol.1
極奥アジア : vol.1

I remembered how on my previous visit I had observed small fragments of stucco relievos emerging
from the slope of eroded soil below the foot of a big tamarisk-covered sand-cone near Balawaste,
the northernmost of the smaller sites about Khādalik. These evidently marked the position of
a ruined Buddhist shrine, which had first been exposed to erosion before being covered up by the
accumulation of drift-sand.¹³ But a systematic search for such ruins in this large and deceptive
area would have taken time, which my programme would not allow to spare.

Remains
from Bala-
waste. Curiously enough it was near Balawaste that the discovery was said to have been made of
a considerable collection of fresco and stucco relievo fragments and of other miscellaneous relics
from a Buddhist shrine, which Badruddīn Khān delivered to me at Kāshgar in June 1915.¹³ᵃ I have
no means of verifying the statement; but, in view of the very close agreement of the relics in character
and style with those found at Khādalik, I believe it to be probably correct. Among the fragments
of mural paintings in tempera, some of large size and evidently cut off extant walls, others, no
doubt, picked up loose in the debris, the following may be specially noted for their subjects. In
Bal. 02 we have interesting architectural details of distinct Gandhāra type ; in 05 a–h a collection
of standing Buddha figures radiating as in representations of the Śrāvastī miracle ; in 094 a well-
drawn yellow horse galloping ; in 098 a princely figure playing a harp with graceful hand ; in 0104
two ducks facing, &c. Donor figures of interest, on account of the faithful representation of their
costume, are seen in 0117–18, 0121–7. Fragments of fine stucco painted both on front and back,
0122–3, 0128–9, may, perhaps, have belonged to partitions dividing small niches in a shrine.
Among the many stucco relievo fragments the figures of floating Gandharvis (050, 075–6, 082,
Pl. IV) may be noticed ; small Buddha heads are still more frequent (see Bal. 077, 090, Pl. V).
In the fragment 092 we have distinct evidence that accidental burning has helped to harden these
small stuccoes.

Finds from
Domoko,
Khādalik. The area of ruined sites north-east of Domoko of which Khādalik marks the centre and
Balawaste and Kuduk-köl the north and south ends, is likely to have been the source also of the
series of miscellaneous relics marked D.K. in the List below. The small objects in metal, stone,
and bone, D.K. 01–8 (Pl. X, XI), were brought to me at Achma, where I stayed for the night after
clearing the remains at Kuduk-köl. The rest, D.K. 09–104, were acquired by Badruddīn either
at Domoko itself or received from there through Mullah Khwāja and other inhabitants. The frag-
ments of stucco reliefs, of which some are shown in Pl. IV, and the painted panels, unfortunately
much effaced (D.K. 057, 0101–2, Pl. XIII), suggest provenance from temple remains of approxi-
mately the same date as those of Khādalik. The scraps of Tibetan, Chinese, and Brāhmī writing
found on wood, D.K. 017, 054, 055, agree with corresponding finds made at Khādalik.¹⁴ The small
objects acquired through Badruddīn Khān, and mainly stucco relief fragments, Kha. 01–4 (Pl. II, V),
were said to have been brought from Khādalik itself. Remains of MSS. and some wooden records,
mainly in Sanskrit and Khotanese, as well as in Tibetan, acquired through Badruddīn Khān,
were also ascribed to Khādalik and neighbouring sites.¹⁴ᵃ

Alleged
finds from
Ulūgh-
ziārat. Small antiques in metal, stone, and wood acquired by me at Domoko and marked in the List
with U.Z. were said to have been found in the great debris area that extends north and south of
the sacred burial-place of Ulūgh-mazār or Ulūgh-ziārat in the desert to the north-west of Domoko.¹⁵
I have, I believe, proved that it marks the position of Hsüan-tsang's P'i-mo and Marco Polo's
Pein.¹⁶ Judging from what my visits to this ground in 1901 and 1906 had shown me, I think that

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