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Ancient Khotan : vol.1 |
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2 ft. 9 in. high. The sides of the platform were formed by a facing of solid planks rising in
two steps and held in position by massive round posts. Towards the middle of the south-
eastern side of the platform, and at a distance of about 2 ft. from it, were the much-decayed
remains of a small semicircular plaster base, about 6 in. high, having embedded in its centre
the stump of a wooden post, which looked as if it might have served as the support of a stucco
image constructed after the fashion illustrated by the Dandān-Uiliq sculptures.
Owing to the top of this base lying almost exposed on the surface, no remains of any kind Find of
were discovered on it. But just in front of it there turned up a small relief image carved in images
wood, only 6 in. long, so completely rotted by exposure as to be barely recognizable. It carved in
broke into small splinters when I attempted to move it. On the first step formed by the wood.
wooden revetment of the platform towards the north-west was found another and much better
preserved wooden image, N. xvi. 1 (see Plate LXX), measuring, with its tenon-like base, 12 in.
in height. It is rudely carved and shows a nude standing figure, with a top-knob on head and
with hands folded at the breast in the attitude of worship (kṛtāñjali). The features are marked
in black, now but faintly visible, while traces of red colour at the base may probably be due
to daubing with Sindūra. Along the same edge of the platform were found the well-preserved
Takhti-shaped tablet (N. xvi. 2), the interesting Kharoṣṭhi text of which has been discussed in
the preceding section¹, as well as a much-perished rectangular covering-tablet (N. xvi. 3). The
discovery of the two figures in wood, which manifestly had connexion with worship, together
with the arrangement of the platform, make it highly probable that this isolated small structure
had served as a shrine, similar in character to the small cellas of Dandān-Uiliq. The fact
that one portion of the text in N. xvi. 2 contains a letter from two Śramaṇas, probably a draft
as explained above, tends to confirm this supposition. It may also be noted that the arrange-
ment of the platform with its wooden facing exactly recalls that observed at the small Stūpa
base which came to light in the course of my excavations at Rawak ².
About 340 yards to the south of N. v lay the remains of a small dwelling N. VI (see plan Excavation
in Plate XXXIII) covered only by a slight layer of sand, and hence badly eroded. Its of dwelling
southernmost room (N. xvii.), which must have once been provided with a raised roof over its N. VI.
central area, was the only one yielding any finds. Among the five documents discovered here
the pair of rectangular tablets N. xvii. 2+3 (see Plate CIV) were remarkably well-preserved,
considering that the protecting sand lay here only about 1 ft. deep. An avenue to the east of
the dwelling was clearly marked by a row of large fallen poplars.
The excavation of the last-named small ruin having been effected under the Surveyor's Remains of
supervision while I was still engaged in the clearing of N. xv. close by, I was able to turn, on house
February 9, to the remains of the relatively large dwelling, N. VII (for plan see Plate XXXIII), N. VII.
which occupied a conspicuous position on a loess-bank rising island-like above much-eroded
ground nearly one mile to the north of N. v. A good deal of timber-débris strewing the eroded
slopes to the west and north showed that the building must once have been more extensive.
The same conclusion was indicated by the dimensions of the hall, seen in the plan at the
south-eastern end of the extant ruin. Here the sand lay 6 to 7 ft. deep, and its clearing cost
a good deal of labour. The row of smaller rooms on the north-west side, separated from the
rest of the building by a passage 4 ft. broad, occupied a level fully 5 ft. higher, a circumstance
which may possibly indicate construction at a different time. Here the sand-layer was much
slighter, and along the outer faces of the rooms the ground was undergoing erosion. On the
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