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Innermost Asia : vol.2 |
| 極奥アジア : vol.2 |
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120 and 200 yards wide on the average, adjoin the long sides of the plateau and unite where its
south-eastern end tapers into a prow-like edge of cliffs. At the opposite end the plateau is cut off
from its continuation to the north-west by a natural fosse, about 50 to 60 yards wide, formed by
a small branch which the more easterly of the two ' Yārs ' has thrown out towards the other. Small
streams flow in both Yārs. These are ordinarily fed by springs, in which subterranean drainage
from the valleys of Yoghan-terek and Shaftalluk comes again to the surface ;⁶ but they occasionally
also receive water from heavy floods descending from the mountains. The bottom of these deep
Yārs lies, near Yār-khoto, about a hundred feet, on the average, below the level of the plateau
and of the cultivated area to the east ; they owe their formation, no doubt, to the greater volume
and eroding force of such floods at a former period. The alluvial clay through which these streams
have carved their way falls off along the edges of the plateau in vertical cliffs, unscaleable in most
places and from 95 to 110 feet high where I measured them. These cliffs provided the town with
natural walls of almost impregnable strength, easily defended from above and practically proof
against breaching or mining, though, of course, affording no protection against projectiles discharged
from the ground on the other side of the Yārs.
Approaches Approach to the plateau occupied by the town lies only at two points. Near its south-eastern
to plateau. end a winding track, evidently going back to ancient times and artificially improved, gives access
to a spot where the plateau top slopes down to about 75 or 80 feet above the bottom of the adjoining
Yār. The only other track by which the plateau can be gained now lies in a steep little ravine
ascending near the middle of the north-eastern edge. This ravine communicates above with a
narrow and deeply cut gully forming a lane and lined by ruined houses, and is flanked lower down
by massive remains which look like watch-towers cut from the clay. It hence appears probable
that this approach likewise dates from ancient times.
Group of The lower and broader half of the plateau lies towards the south-east and is closely occupied
ruined by the ruins of the town. The other half is a waste of bare clay but for scattered remains of ruined
Stūpas. shrines, obviously Buddhist, and some small cemeteries of a type resembling those of Astāna.
Among the former the most striking is a ruined structure, marked IV in the sketch-plan and seen
in Fig. 279 of Serindia, which in its ground-plan and style must, when intact, have closely resembled
the curious temple (P) at Idikut-shahri, described by Professor Grünwedel.⁷ Of the eighty small
tower-like Stūpas ranged in four symmetrical groups round the central group of a large and high
Stūpa with four others flanking it, all but two had been reduced to shapeless heaps of debris.
These appeared to have been little dug into for manuring earth, and a systematic clearing of the
debris might possibly still have revealed remains of votive deposits.
Ruins of Two other conspicuous ruins found in this open area are evidently Vihāras, containing within
two large a rectangular enclosure of high walls of stamped clay a cella once occupied by cult images as well
Vihāras. as rooms grouped around a court. Both these two ruins had evidently been searched. But in the
one marked I, of which a plan is shown in Pl. 26, and a photograph in Fig. 333, careful clearing
of the passage i along the north-western side of the cella brought to light from among the debris
thrown there several fragments of block-printed Chinese and Uigur texts, including two with
glosses in Brāhmī script. Other manuscript and block-print remains in Chinese and Uigur were
purchased from men engaged in digging for manuring earth at small ruins near the northern edge
of the town area.⁸ They all help to confirm the conclusion, to which other evidence points, that the
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