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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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these and similar documents in cursive Brahmi found in other ruins
of Dandan-Uiliq, has been fully borne out by the result of Dr.
Hoernle's painstaking researches, as since published in the second
part of his "Report on the British Collection of Antiquities from
Central Asia" (1902). The materials upon which that eminent
scholar worked comprised a considerable number of well-preserved
documents of this type which had been purchased in the years
1895–97 by Mr. Macartney and Captain Godfrey from Badruddin,
the Afghan Aksakal of Khotan. Internal evidence, as well as the
information secured by me, makes it highly probable that these
documents represent chance finds made by Turdi during his earlier
visits to Dandan-Uiliq. Their minute analysis has enabled Dr.
Hoernle to establish a series of philological facts which are of great
interest, and possess considerable importance also from a historical
point of view. He has succeeded in determining a number of
words, either names, or terms, or numerals, which "seem to prove
clearly that the language of the documents is an Indo-Iranian
dialect, having affinities both with Persian and the Indian
vernaculars, in addition to peculiarities of its own," pointing
towards a connection with the so-called Ghalchah dialects of the
Pamir region. He has also ascertained the interesting fact that
the majority of the complete documents are fully dated, though the
key to the chronology has yet to be discovered.
A number of ingenious observations, such as the discovery of
lists of names at the end of certain documents, accompanied by
what manifestly are the marks of witnesses, support Dr. Hoernle's
conclusion that we have in them records of official or private
transactions similar in character to the deeds of loan, requisition
orders, &c., which are contained in the Chinese documents from
Dandan-Uiliq to be described below. The detailed examination
of my finds of this kind which Dr. Hoernle has very kindly under-
taken has not proceeded sufficiently far to throw further light on
the interesting questions thus raised. But the certainty which
exists as to all circumstances attending the discovery of the
documents contained in my collection has already helped us to
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