Grunwedel, _Buddh. Kultstatten_, pp. 129-130 and
plate. Foucher, "L'Art Greco-Bouddhique," p. 145, _J.R.A.S._ 1886, 333
and plate i.]
[Footnote 477: See Wachsberger's "Stil-kritische Studien zur Kunst
Chinesisch-Turkestan's" in _Ostasiatische Ztsft._ 1914 and 1915.]
[Footnote 478: See Grunwedel, _Buddh. Kultstatten_, pp. 332 ff.]
[Footnote 479: _Ancient Khotan_, vol. II. plates lx and lxi.]
[Footnote 480: Le Coq in _J.R.A.S._ 1909, pp. 299 ff. See the whole
article.]
[Footnote 481: For some of the more striking drawings referred to see
Grunwedel, _Buddh. Kultstatten_, figs. 51, 53, 239, 242, 317, 337,
345-349.]
[Footnote 482: In _Geog. Journal_, May 1916, p. 362.]
[Footnote 483: Chavannes, _Documents chinois decouverts par Aurel
Stein_, 1913.]
[Footnote 484: These of course are not the Osmanlis or Turks of
Constantinople. The Osmanlis are the latest of the many branches of
the Turks, who warred and ruled in Central Asia with varying success
from the fifth to the eighth centuries.]
[Footnote 485: That is Kashgar, Khotan, Kucha and Tokmak for which
last Karashahr was subsequently substituted. The territory was also
called An Hsi.]
[Footnote 486: See for lists and details Chavannes, _Documents sur les
Tou-kiue Occidentaux_, pp. 67 ff. and 270 ff.]
[Footnote 487: The conquest and organization of the present Chinese
Turkestan dates only from the reign of Ch'ien Lung.]
[Footnote 488: Thus the pilgrim Wu-K'ung mentions Chinese officials in
the Four Garrisons.]
[Footnote 489: See for this part of their history, Grenard's article
in _J.A._ 1900, I. pp. 1-79.]
[Footnote 490: Pelliot also attributes importance to a Sogdian Colony
to the south of Lob Nor, which may have had much to do with the
transmission of Buddhism and Nestorianism to China. See _J.A._ Jan.
1916, pp. 111-123.]
[Footnote 491: These words have been connected with the tribe called
Sacae, Sakas, or Sok.]
[Footnote 492: See Klaproth, _Tabl. Historique_, p. 166, apparently
quoting from Chinese sources. Specht, _J.A._ 1897, II. p. 187. Franke,
_Beitr.-zur Kenntniss Zentral-Asiens_, p. 83. The passage quoted by
Specht from the Later Han Annals clearly states that the Yueh-chih
made a man of their own choosing prince of Kashgar, although, as
Franke points out, it makes no reference to Kanishka or the story of
the hostages related by Hsuan Chuang.]
[Footnote 493: Fa-Hsien's Chieh-ch'a has been interpreted as Skardo,
but Chavannes
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