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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. Extra Number 1899

1899

3) a collection of manscript leaves in three sets found in the Takla Makan and received by me towards the end of October 1897 with a letter of the Revenue and Agricultural Department of the Government of India No. [...] The town of Kuchar lies to the North and Shot= to the South of the Great Sandy Desert which occupies nearly the 'whole of the space intervening between the Tian Shan Mountains in the North and Kuen Luen Range in the South. [...] The southern portion of this great desert which lies immediately North of Khotan bears the name of Takla Makan and most of the find-places are situated within the limits of this portion of the sandy desert. [...] The hole which they made into the stiipa was excavated straight iu level with the ground and the manuscripts accordingly would seem to have been found in the centre of the stupa on the ground level exactly in the spot where the original deposit of relics is usually met with in such monuments. [...] The latter transmitted it to me in Calcutta where under the name of the Weber Manuscripts specimens of it were published by me in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Volume LXII for 1893).
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Pages
144
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii The Philological Secretary view
Frontmatter
i-xxxii The Philological Secretary view
Central Asian Antiquities
1-110 The Philological Secretary view

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