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0109 Ancient Khotan : vol.1
古代コータン : vol.1
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hand, he has not failed to inform us of Chieh-ch'a, like so many other places, having boasted
of 'a tooth of Buddha, for which the people have reared a Stūpa, connected with which there
are more than a thousand monks and their disciples, all students of the Hīnayāna' ²⁸.

The only reference which Fa-hsien makes to the industrial products of Chieh-ch'a concerns Industrial
materials of dress. These are said to comprise different kinds of fine woollen cloth (thus products of
Legge; 'felt', according to Beal's translation) and of serge; apart from these 'the dress of the Kāshgar.
common people is of coarse materials, as in our country of Ch'in'. Hsüan-tsang, too, notices
the felts and excellent fabrics as well as the fine and skilfully woven carpets of Kāshgar, which
even at the present day continues to export considerable quantities of rough but durable
cotton goods ²⁹.

Of the two Chinese pilgrims Fa-yung and Tao-yo, we know that they passed through Visits of
Kāshgar on their way to India about 420 A.D. and the middle of the fifth century, respectively. Fa-yung
But the relations they wrote of their travels are lost, and their biographies do not supply details and Tao-yo.
about their visits to Sha-lê or Su-lê ³⁰. Also of Dharmagupta, an Indian Buddhist scholar and
a native of Lāṭa or Gujarāt, who travelled to China and ended his life there, we only know
that he reached Sha-lê from Kapiśa through Badakhshān, Wakhān, and Sarīkol, and that he
resided there in the royal temple for two years (apparently about 580-582 A.D.) ³¹.

Hsüan-tsang, the next pious visitor of whom we have knowledge, has fortunately left us Hsüan-
some accurate details concerning Ch'ia-sha or Kāshgar ³². He tells us that its territory was tsang's
about 5,000 li, or fifty marches, in circuit, that it contained plenty of sandy desert ground and description
but little cultivable soil. The latter, however, was very productive, and flowers and fruits of Kāshgar.
abounded ³³. The climate is described as agreeable and temperate, winds and rain arriving