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On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1 |
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excavations proceeding in different places, the onslaught of
the wind was felt to the full. Whenever I descended to the
diggings I enjoyed my share of the blinding dust made up
largely of disintegrated filth. The worst of exposure and
discomfort was felt near the south-eastern corner of the fort,
where the protecting wall curtain had been breached by
wind erosion and fallen. And just there two fairly large
rooms presented a particularly rich mine of refuse and
records.
The great mass of the Tibetan documents on wood and
paper of which in the end we recovered here over a thou-
sand, has proved on examination by such competent
scholars as Professors F. W. Thomas and A. H. Francke to
consist of miscellaneous office papers, more often than not
of a petty kind. They are reports, applications, indents and
the like, all couched in the language of everyday life.
Tibetan literature, while abounding in canonical Buddhist
texts, possesses exceedingly little of early secular writing. This
gives distinct interest to this mass of miscellaneous docu-
ments, quite apart from the manifold glimpses they yield
of local conditions at the time when the Tarim basin had
passed for a century under Tibetan domination. A great
number of the records treat of military affairs, mentioning
frontier posts in need of supplies or help, troop movements,
etc.
Among the numerous localities named I have been able
to identify the 'Castle of Great Nob' with Charkhlik and
the 'Castle of Little Nob' with Miran itself. The name Nob,
like Hsüan-tsang's Na-fu-po, obviously corresponds to the
mediaeval and modern Lop applied to the whole territory.
Other evidence furnished by those records has made it
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