[58] For the joint Kedarite-Ephthalite rule in Kashmir see Cunningham’s Ninth Oriental Congress, I. 231–2. The sameness of names, if not an identity of rulers, shows how close was the union between the Ephthalites and the Kedarites. The coins preserve one difference depicting the Yuechi or Kedarite ruler with bushy and the White Húṇa or Ephthalite ruler with cropped hair. [↑]
[59] About a.d. 700 Urumtsi Kashgar Khoten and Kuche in the Tarim valley became Tibetan for a few years. Parker’s Thousand Years of the Tartars, 243. In a.d. 691 the western Turks who for some years had been declining and divided were broken by the great eastern Turk conqueror Mercho. The following passage from Masúdi (Prairies D’Or, I. 289) supports the establishment of White Húṇa or Mihira power in Tibet. The sons of Amúr (a general phrase for Turks) mixed with the people of India. They founded a kingdom in Tibet the capital of which they called Med. [↑]
[60] Encyclopædia Britannica Articles Tibet and Turkestan. [↑]
[61] Both Ibn Haukal and Al Istakhri (a.d. 950) call the Bay of Bengal the sea of Tibet. Compare Reinaud’s Abulfeda, ccclviii.; Encyclopædia Britannica Article Tibet page 345. [↑]
[62] Yule’s Cathay, I. lxxxi. [↑]
[63] Ency. Brit. China, 646. [↑]
[64] Thisrong besides spreading the power of Tibet (he was important enough to join with Mámún the son of the great Harun-ar-Rashid (a.d. 788–809) in a league against the Hindus) brought many learned Hindus into Tibet, had Sanskrit books translated, settled Lamaism, and built many temples. It is remarkable that (so far as inscriptions are read) the series of Nakhonwat temples was begun during Thisrong’s reign (a.d. 803–845). [↑]
[65] Yule’s Marco Polo, II. 39–42; J. R. A. Soc. I. 355. [↑]
[66] Yule Jour. R. A. Soc. (N. S.) I. 356. [↑]
[67] Compare Yule in Jour. R. A. S. (N. S.) I. 355. Kandahár in south-west Afghanistán is another example of the Kedarite or Little Yuechi fondness for giving to their colonies the name of their parent country. [↑]