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0394 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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THE curtain rises on Turkestan about 200 B.C.
Khotan is known in the Chinese records at
about that date. In 177 B.C. these records set forth
the expulsion of Khotanese and Kashgaris from
their homes due to the incoming, from North-east
Mongolia, of swarms of Yue-che, of Mongol or
Tartan race, who sought new homes vi et armis.
Those whose vines and fig-trees they coveted were
a people far advanced beyond the Yue-che in all the
civil arts. Enough has been said in connection with
the ancient MSS. recently discovered (p. 60) to in-
dicate that the Khotan country (doubtless includ-
ing the region farther westward) was the seat of
some learning as early as the date ascribed to this
movement; and even without the specific evidence
which has been found to indicate that fact, it might
be fairly deduced from the mere existence of several
considerable cities in the Tarim basin. Their exist-
ence in such a land supposes extensive systems of
irrigation, and these, in turn, always bespeak a highly