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0314 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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temples. These establishments appear to have been kept
up after the prosperity of the town had vanished, as I infer
from the extremely flimsy nature of the repairs superposed
upon the solid structure of the older part of the fort.

Ancient Miran, in its prime, must have required a water
supply many times as large as that now available. It is
reasonable to suppose that, being the most important place
for hundreds of miles, from both a religious and a military
point of view, Miran had an irrigation system as good as
the country afforded. The water at first came from an old
river-channel east of the town, and later, apparently, from
the present channel on the west. The dams and canals are
preserved as at Vash Sheri, and do not differ from those of
to-day. The main older dam is composed of tamarisks and
small boulders thrown loosely together; and there is said to
be another, which I could not find, composed of boulders
alone. The canals are either simple ditches, or are raised
a few feet upon dykes. In every case, the material is that
which happened to lie close at hand. On the upper Miran
River there are no inhabitants, and no opportunity for the
diversion of part of the water. The present supply, sufficient
for fifteen or twenty families, is all that the river is capable
of furnishing under the system of irrigation which prevails
now, and was in vogue in Buddhist times a millennium or
more ago. If the rainfall were increased, say, by half, the
amount of water reaching Miran would be multiplied in
far larger proportion. Being confined to a single channel,
the water would scarcely suffer more loss from evaporation
and from sinking into the ground than it now does, and all
the extra supply would be available at Miran. The diffi-