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0318 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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not a translation from some Buddhist or other imported
religious text, as is the case with most early Turkish
language remains so far recovered. It contains a collection
of short stories on men and animals, bringing out points
of moral instruction for children and youths, and the
author's own colophon records occasion, place, and time
of writing. Though the date given in the usual Turkish
cyclical years cannot be accurately determined, it is im-
probable that the manuscript is later than the eighth
century.

Old Turkish translations of Buddhist canonical works
are represented by half-a-dozen books in the so-called
Uigur script which developed from Syriac writing, and was
in use already for Sogdian texts. Several of these books
are perfectly preserved volumes, counting hundreds of
pages and largely interspersed with Chinese rubrics and
glosses (Fig. 192, 4, 6). My friend Dr. E. Denison Ross
has been able to identify in at least two of these volumes
translations of different portions of a commentary on the
Abhidharmakosa, a famous Buddhist metaphysical work,
which Hsüan-tsang was the first to transplant into Chinese
from its Sanskrit original. In spite of the difficult con-
tents, there is reason to hope that a detailed study of these
Uigur versions, such as Dr. Ross is now engaged upon,
will materially enlarge our knowledge of the early Turkish
vocabulary.

I have already explained how sadly I felt on the spot
my total want of Sinologist training with reference to those
masses of Chinese manuscript which formed the preponder-
ating bulk both of the hidden library and of what I was able
to bring away from it. Helped by Chiang-ssŭ-yeh's zeal
and intelligent interest I had, indeed, endeavoured, while
any selection was possible, to secure Chinese manuscripts
mainly from those 'miscellaneous' bundles in which docu-
ments and secular writings of various kinds seemed to be
more frequent than among the closely tied packets of rolls
with Buddhist canonical texts (Fig. 194). But even if
Chiang had been a scholar trained in Western methods
of research, it would have been difficult for him to find
time for any systematic selection under the conditions