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0208 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 208 (Color Image)

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top we could make out the various 'Langars' (travellers'
shelters) and shrines to the north, and thus exactly fix our
position. A reference to the available maps showed that
Ordam-Padshah had been placed fully half a degree of longi-
tude out of its true position.
The miserable looking Mujawirs of the place had followed
me to the dune, and now related the story how the holy
Sultan Arslan Boghra had succumbed on this plain to the
attack of unbelievers, i.e., the Buddhist antagonists of Islam,