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Innermost Asia : vol.1 |
| 極奥アジア : vol.1 |
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through which Yāsīn had passed. I found some of these abandoned lands in course of being
reoccupied by recent emigrants from Badakhshān. Their presence, together with many imported
articles of dress and the like, were a sign of the vicinity of the Oxus region and of the influence
that its civilization has always exercised beyond the Hindukush watershed.
Yāsīn proper, the largest village in the district, stands in the stretch of fertile ground, covered Visit to
with rich fields and orchards, that extends for about four miles along the right bank of the river Yāsīn
below the issue of the Nasbar valley (Fig. 41). A day's halt there enabled me to visit the late castle.
Rāja Shahīd-ul-'Ajam, then Governor of Yāsīn, in the old and now half-decayed castle that had
sheltered his Khushwaqt ancestors during generations of strife and bloodshed. In the plentiful
wood-carving of its tumble-down halls the predominance of Persian architectural ornament was
unmistakable, clearly pointing to models from distant Badakhshān. It was interesting also to
observe signs of the time-honoured feudal devotion linking Yāsīn people with the race that for
two centuries and down to quite recent times had almost constantly misruled them.
From the rest-house situated not far from the outlet of the Nasbar-gol, on ground now under- Old remains
going reclamation after prolonged abandonment, I proceeded to examine the spot, a quarter at Yāsīn.
of a mile to the south-west, where some old remains were reported to have been brought to light
by shepherds, about three years before my visit. I found there, at the rock-strewn foot of the hill-
side, the remnants of a walled platform measuring about 18 by 30 feet, and on it a small circular
mound formed of rough stones and rubble and probably marking the last relic of a completely
decayed Stūpa. The mound had been levelled almost to the ground by digging ; but among
the debris thrown down on its north side a careful search brought to light eight small clay seals,²ᵃ
of which the best preserved showed the relievo representation of a Stūpa with five 'Chhattras'
and around it traces of the Buddhist formula ye dharmaprahhavāh, &c., in Nāgarī characters
of the late type common in Tibet. These clay seals, similar to those found at the sites of numerous
Buddhist shrines in India and Central Asia, had evidently formed part of a votive deposit disturbed
when the mound was dug into.
Just to the north of Yāsīn and the mouth of the Nasbar valley there extends on the right Ruined fort
bank an almost level plateau, about three miles long and one mile wide, known as Dasht-i-taus. of Chumar-
It is known to local tradition to have once been cultivated, and its position is such as to permit khan.
of its easily being brought under irrigation again by a canal from the Nasbar stream. At the
south-western extremity of this plateau, where it falls off with precipitous cliffs of conglomerate
towards the bed of the Nasbar-gol, there rise the much-decayed walls of a ruined fort known as
Chumarkhan. As seen in the plan (Pl. 1), it forms an irregular quadrilateral, with a face about
170 feet long crowning the cliffs above the stream and a keep-like structure in the centre measur-
ing 18 by 20 feet within (Fig. 40). The walls, built of flat pieces of slaty stone and large rubble
pieces inserted between them, are as much as three feet in thickness, but now rise nowhere to more
than five feet above the ground. That it was meant to guard the approach to the Dasht-i-taus
plateau from the Nasbar valley, across a narrow saddle immediately below the north face of the
fort, there can be no doubt. The advanced state of decay of the walls points to their considerable
antiquity. Popular tradition ascribes the fort to the same age as the cultivation of the Dasht-i-taus.
Resuming on August 27th my journey up the main valley, I rode along this now utterly barren Remains
plain and was shown in several places traces of an old canal coming from the side of the Nasbar of Dasht-
stream. Its line was quite distinct from that of a smaller canal derived from the Tui stream farther i-taus.
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