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0137 Ancient Khotan : vol.1
古代コータン : vol.1
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confirming the essential points in Sung Yün's account, it informs us that the people all worshipped
Buddha, and that they were subject to the Yeh-ta or Hephthalites.

Of the political relations of the territory the Chinese Annals furnish some further information.
In another passage of the Pei shih, which mentions the district by the name of Hsi-chü-pan
(Si-kiu-pan), and to which reference has already been made in a note above ²³, we find it
recorded that an embassy from there arrived at the Imperial court at the commencement of
the t'ai-yen period (435–439 A. D.), and that tribute was subsequently received without interruption.
The previously mentioned notices of the Ch'ien Han shu show that the small hill states, which
later on became absorbed in Chu-chü-po, all acknowledged the authority of the Governor-General
of the Western Regions during the period of the Han supremacy. The subsequent subjection
of Chu-chü-p'an to the power of the Hephthalites is attested also by the Annals of the Liang
dynasty, covering the period 502–556 A. D. ²⁴

When the Western Turks succeeded the Hephthalites as the paramount power in Central Political
Asia, Chu-chü-po undoubtedly was among the many states subject to their sovereignty. In Relations of
consequence we find it included, along with Kuchā, Khotan, Kāshgar, and Sarikol, in the region Chu-chü-po.
which the Emperor T'ai-tsung demanded in 646 from Shé-kuei, Kagan of the Western Turks,
in exchange for the hand of a Chinese princess ²⁵. But already, in the year 639, the ruler of
Chu-chü-po, in accord with the ruler of Kāshgar, had deemed it advisable to dispatch an
embassy with products of his territory to the Imperial court when the victorious advance of
T'ai-tsung's troops towards Turfān foreshadowed the Chinese conquest of the Tārim Basin ²⁶.
This conquest was actually completed in 659, when the rising of the Turkish chief Tu-man,
who had attached to himself the states of Kāshgar, Karghalik (Chu-chü-po), and Sarikol, was
subdued ²⁷. Thus we find the kingdom of Chu-chü-pan mentioned among the units of the
administrative organization which the Chinese in the same year established for the region
controlled by the 'Four Garrisons' ²⁸. No further reference to this territory is made in the
Chinese records accessible to me; nor did my short stay at Karghalik acquaint me with any
ancient remains which could throw light on its history.