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0222 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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Khotan. As the Khotani "infidels" clung to the Buddhist
faith, the four saints by power of prayer destroyed their
city, then called Khal-khalimachin. Thereupon twelve
thousand people became Mohammedans, and built the
new city of Khotan. Of the remaining pagan inhabitants,
seventeen thousand, with Nuktereshid-Chuktereshid, their
king, came to Choka, and built the city whose ruins I dis-
covered. Forty years later, the Imams followed them, and
naturally were refused admission. A man of Choka, how-
ever, who had secretly become a Mohammedan, came out
by stealth, and led them to the water supply of the city.
As the water flowed in an underground conduit, its exact
course was not evident. The Imams prayed for guidance.
At once a tree sprouted, grew to maturity, flowered, and
produced fruit, a delicate red crab-apple peculiar to the
terrace villages. Knowing that the tree must grow from the
water, they dug a hole, and found the conduit, and dropped
into it a red crab-apple. The apple swirled round and round
in the swift stream, and finally was sucked downward.
Thereupon the water dried up. The city was forthwith
abandoned, the people moving on eastward through Sai-
Bagh and Nura to Imamla on the Ak-Sai River. Thither,
in course of time, the zealous Imams followed them for the
final combat. The pagan king was encamped higher up the
Ak-Sai than were the few Mohammedans, and the water
which came to the latter was polluted. The Imams dis-
patched a pious subordinate, whose fervent prayer caused
the Ak-Sai to be diverted eastward into the Kara Su, where
part of it still flows. This did not quench the ardor of the
pagans, however, for soon after, when the Mohammedans