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Innermost Asia : vol.1 |
| 極奥アジア : vol.1 |
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By crossing the Sheobat pass I had gained access to the mountain territories of Gūpis and
Yāsīn, through which my route was to lead me straight north close to the watershed between Indus
and Oxus. Ever since the Gilgit Agency was first established in 1877 more and more detailed
information has become available about the geographical and kindred aspects of these tracts on the
head-waters of the Gilgit river, and though some of the most useful books and surveys are not
as yet within reach of the public, no general account of the ground over which this portion of my
journey took me seems here called for. I may accordingly restrict my account to such observa-
tions as have a direct antiquarian or historical bearing, and to brief notes on the route actually
followed by me and its successive stages. I may add that I propose to adhere to the same course
in those further stages of my journey which took me across ground already fully surveyed or
previously visited by me.
Chinese
notices of
' Little
P'o-lü '. The region I traversed on my way from Tangīr to the main Hindukush watershed presents
a distinct historical interest, because the route which leads down from the Darkōt pass through
the open and comparatively fertile valley of Yāsīn must have always claimed importance as the
shortest means of communication between Oxus and Indus. But the only notices shedding light
on its early history are those found in Chinese records of the T'ang period, and as I have already
had occasion to discuss them fully in the detailed reports on my two preceding Central-Asian
journeys,¹ a brief summary of the main results there arrived at will here suffice. From the notices
concerning ' Little P'o-lü ' 小 勃 律 contained in the T'ang Annals, which M. Chavannes
was the first to render fully accessible and to elucidate,² it is certain that this territory must have
contained Yāsīn and the valley of the Gilgit river also. It acquired considerable political and
strategic importance for the Chinese when early in the eighth century the Tibetans operating from
the direction of Great P'o-lü or Baltistān endeavoured to secure access through Little P'o-lü to
the Oxus valley and thus to join hands with the Arabs, the other great opponents of Chinese
supremacy in Central Asia.³ The necessity of keeping open the most direct route by which com-
munication could be maintained from the Chinese side with Kashmīr and other Indian kingdoms
threatened by Arab conquest, made the protection of Little P'o-lü an equally imperative measure
of imperial policy.⁴
Kao
Hsien-
chih's As early as A. D. 722 we read of Chinese troops helping its king to recover nine ' towns '
taken from him by the Tibetans. In 737 Chinese intervention from the direction of the far-off
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