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0223 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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were at their prayers, the host of Nuktereshid fell upon
them and killed them all, including the Imams. Forty, how-
ever, came to life again, and returned to Kashgar. They
persuaded the king of that country to send some families,
who settled Imamla, Sai Bagh, and Nura, which till then
had been inhabited only by nomads. Nuktereshid and his
people moved on southeastward to Polu, which is said to
have been an important post, "because it lies on the Kal-
muck road from Yarkand to Cherchen." There they were
finally conquered by the Mohammedans.

The whole story is full of fantastic miracles and impos-
sibilities, but the main facts are historically accurate. The
miracles, such for instance as the diversion of the Ak-Sai,
are chiefly distorted explanations of real facts. The dates
are open to question, for while the chronicle gives 1000 A. D.
as the time when Nuktereshid ruled, Bellew gives 1095 A. D.
Apparently, Choka was a provincial town in a district in-
habited by nomads, and rose to importance only during
the brief space when it became the capital of the Buddhist
kings, whom the Mohammedans expelled from Khotan about
1000 A. D. The abandonment of the town was tradition-
ally a withdrawal of the people without fighting because
their water supply failed. Of course the water supply may
have been diverted by an enemy, as is said to have been
done in the case of the Ak-Sai; but that does not explain
where the water went, or why a town was ever founded
with so diminutive a water supply as that now available,
unless the climate were different.

The story of the miracles suggested to me to ask whether
there were any "jins," the genii of the Arabian Nights, in