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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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nished me with numerous pieces of pottery showing ornamental
designs and often glazed in bright colours. In the bed of the
ravine others set to work to seek for coins, and from the
burrows they made half a dozen copper pieces were dug out
in my presence. There can be no doubt that these coins have
been washed out originally from the same débris layers to which
the pottery belongs. Thus a clue is gained for the date of the
latter, which may help in regard to the chronology of other
sites. With the pottery there is found a great deal of broken
glass and small bits of jade. Among the former I noticed a
number of pieces with that iridescence which is so frequent
in the ancient glassware of the West. The production of glass
is a long-forgotten art in Turkestan.
From Tögujai I rode to another old site, one and a half
miles north-east of Moji, known as Hasa, which had already
attracted Dr. Hedin's notice. It is undoubtedly a Muham-
madan cemetery, but there is no clear indication as to its date.
On a small hillock, from which skulls and skeletons were
protruding, I found a number of graves covered with wooden
boards. One of them which I opened showed the remains of
a child, wrapped in the cotton stuff of the country, and turned
towards the Qibla in accordance with orthodox practice.
Though the graves are supposed to be those of Shahids, i.e.,
Musulmans who fell fighting the infidel, the men with me had
no scruples whatever in exposing their contents—a proof that
fanatical superstition can have no deep hold on them. The
sand of the desert has invaded this resting-place, and em-
phasises its look of desolation. The sky was in full accord
with the scene, dust-laden and hazy. Of the mountains no
trace could be seen, though Sanju, whence the Karakorum
route starts, lies only some twelve miles south of Moji. It
seems to me probable that Moji occupies the position indi-
cated by Hinen-Tsiang for the town of Po-kia-i, where a
famous Buddha statue brought from Kashmir was worshipped
in the pilgrim's time.
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