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0104 Southern Tibet : vol.8
Southern Tibet : vol.8 / Page 104 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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In the paragraph on *Yü-t'ien-ho* or Khotan-darya we read:¹

Nachdem der bei *Egriyar* vereinigte *Yü-t'ien ho* über 400 Li nordöstlich und zwar nach einander östlich vom *»Chatalji-Gebirge*, von *»Taksan-köl* (?) und *»Bukabashi* vorübergeflossen sei, vereinige sich der Fluß mit denen von *Kashgar* und *Yarkand*, und so bewahrheite sich, was die Geschichte der Han sage, daß nämlich der »*Fluß*« (ho, d. h. der Huangho, der sich ja am Lop-nor unter der Erde verlieren sollte) zwei Quellen habe, deren eine am *Ts'ung-ling*, die andere in *Yü-t'ien* sich befinde.

Regarding the *Aksu-darya* the Hsi-yü-shui-tao-chi gives the information that its western source is situated on a ramification of the Ts'ung-ling called the *Kok-shal mountain* . . . ? The river is said to flow southward to the northern boundary of *Kabak Aghzy*, where it joins the *Ts'ung-ling River* and the river from *Khotan* . . . . Of all four rivers the *two Ts'ung-ling Rivers* are said to be the greatest in length, namely the Kashgar river more than 2 700 li, the Yarkand river more than 2 100 li, while the Khotan river had 1 100 li, and that from Aksu more than 900 li.³

Finally the Hsi-yü-shui-tao-chi gives the joint river, the *Tarim*, the name *Ts'ung-ling-Pei-ho*, the Northern Ts'ung-ling River, after the Ts'ung-ling mountains from which it comes down.⁴