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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
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remarkable hardness. These fragments, among which pieces
of draped relievo figures, as well as of decorative plaques are
largely represented, display a style of modelling and a technical
execution far superior to the stucco work of the Dandan-Uiliq and
Endere temples, and recalling the best products of Græco-Buddhist
sculpture in Gandhara. A feature as remarkable as the hardness
of these small stucco relievos is their cracked and fissured surface,
which in places looks as if scorched. The assumption that these
stucco pieces received their present appearance in a fire that con-
sumed the temple naturally suggests itself. But whether this
accidental burning would also account for their exceptional hard-
ness is a question still to be settled by a ceramic expert. "Trea-
sure-seekers" call this place 'Kighillik,' from a large mound
mainly composed of dry manure ('kighik') that rises quite close
to the remains just mentioned. This huge refuse-heap, which
measures, as far as exposed, some 70 by 50 feet, with a depth of at
least 16 feet, has not escaped the attention of treasure-seekers.
The regular galleries they have tunnelled through it enabled me to
ascertain with comparative ease that its contents, besides manure
(apparently horse-dung), were only small bits of bone, charcoal
and fuel.
On the 10th of April I left Ak-sipil, and marching due north
for about fourteen miles, partly over dunes of coarse grey sand,
partly along a pebble-covered 'Sai' clearly recognisable as an
ancient river-bed, arrived in the evening at the ruins called 'Rawak'
("High Mansion") by Turdi and the men of his craft. Here an
unexpected and most gratifying discovery awaited me. Our honest
old guide had spoken only of "an old house" to be seen there
half buried in the sand, but in reality the first glimpse showed a
large Stupa with its enclosing quadrangle, by far the most imposing
structure I had seen among the extant ruins of the Khotan region.
Large dunes of coarse sand, rising over 25 feet in height, covered
the quadrangle and part of the massive square base of the Stupa on
the north-west and north-east faces. But towards the south the drift-
sand was lower, and there great portions of the Stupa base, as well as
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