Sanskrit: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Pelliot chinois 5538
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Pelliot chinois 5538
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Sanskrit (Brahmi script)
Chinese (Chinese script)
Letter

Physical Description

paper
Recto: 81 lines

Content

Recto: Letter of Viśa’ Šūra, king of Khotan, to his uncle, Gao Yuanzhong, the ruler of Shazhou; Verso: Line 1-8, a letter from a Khotanese envoy to the Khotanese court; Line 9-87, a Sanskrit-Khotanese bilingual conversation between an Indian monk on his way to the Wutai Mountain and a man from Ganzhou (?)

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: 970 (0970)
  • None: 4th year of Thyenä tcūnä (= Tianzun), the first month, the 9th day

People

Publications

  • Bailey, H. W. 1954. Khotanese Texts II. Cambridge. (Pages: 125-129)

Related Shelfmarks

IEDC Data

846
10/01/2025

Citations

Zhan Zhang
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Contact

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