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mountain road it is expressly said, that it passes the *Great* and *Little Headache Mountain*
(Sanju-davan?), the *Red Country*, the *Fever Bank* and the *Hanging Passage*, while, on the
other hand, the *Ts'ung-ling* is nowhere mentioned. From the station of *Wu-ch'a*, which
Wylie thinks may be found somewhere about Sarikol, it is said:
To the west is the *Hanging Passage* . . . . The Hanging Passage is a rocky mountain range.
There are gorges and valleys with no connecting road, but having ropes and chains thrown across,
by means of which the passage is effected.¹
Hanging Passage, therefore, does not seem to be included in the term *Ts'ung-ling*,
but is regarded as forming a special orographical point.
Herrmann shows that it is the difficult passage through *Kanjut* to the south of the
*Kilik Pass*. Chavannes believes that Hanging Passage is a term indicating the road of
*Bolor*, the *Little Pu-lu* of the T'ang-shu, of the valley of *Yasin*², but that valley is the
country of *Nan-tou*, which, according to the Chinese data, must be situated beyond the
Hanging Passage. Even nowadays the wanderer in *Kanjut* comes across paths where
he has to walk along narrow galleries carried in parts over branches of trees forced into
fissures of the rock and covered with small stones or supported by iron-rods.³
Both Chinese and European commentators have identified the graphic description
of the Pilgrim Fa-hien from the year 405 with this Hanging Passage.
The way was difficult and rugged (running along) a bank exceedingly precipitous . . . . When
one approached the edge of it, his eyes became unsteady . . . . In former times men had chiselled
paths along the rocks, and distributed ladders on the face of them, to the number altogether of 700,
at the bottom of which there was a suspension bridge of ropes, by which the river was crossed . . . .⁴
Fa-hien's description is quoted in the commentary of the *Shui-ching*, where the
following words, partly taken from the Ch'ien Han-shu, are added⁵:
Ich habe die Aufzeichnungen aller Chronisten hierüber geprüft, und dies ist es, was sie sagen:
An der Grenze von Ki-pin gibt es einen aus Felsenplatten hergestellten Saumpfad, der nur etwas über
einen Fuß breit ist. Die Wanderer gehen hier Schritt für Schritt und halten einander fest, Brücken
aus Tauen schließen sich aneinander über 20 Li lang, bis man nach Hien-tu (d. h. ‚hängende Passage')
kommt. Die Schwierigkeiten, Gefahren und Schrecken sind hier so groß, daß man sie nicht beschreiben
kann. Kuo yi kung sagt: ‚Westlich von Wu-ch'a ist das Land Hien-tu. Es ist eine unzugängliche
Bergschlucht, auf aneinandergefügten Tauen passiert (tu) man hinüber, daher hat das Land seinen
Namen'. . . . Dieses Hien-tu ist es, von dem auch der Buddhist Fa-hien sagt, daß er dort den Fluß
(Indus) überschritt, bevor er nach Udyāna kam.
Especially these last words prove that Fa-hien does not mean the difficulties in
*Kanjut*, but speaks of those at a great distance farther south, *viz.*, in the transverse valley
of the *Indus*.
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