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0395 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 395 (Color Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000234
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great age of the ruined site I was to visit. Hassan Akhun, my
inquisitive young camel-man, had accidentally come across a villager
possessing two inscribed wooden tablets brought away from that
site. When these objects were produced before me, I discovered to
my joyful surprise that they contained writing in that ancient script
of the extreme North-West of India known as Kharoshthi, and of a
type which closely agreed with that prevailing during the period of
Kushana rule in the first centuries of our era.