D'autre Part, Rashid-Ud-Din
Mentionne Le Role Joue Dans L'affaire D'Ahmed Par Le Pulad-Aqa,
C'est-A-Dire Pulad Chinsang, Son Informateur Dans Les Choses Mongoles, Mais
La Forme Mongole De Ce Nom De Pulad Est Bolod, En Transcription
Chinoise Po-Lo.
J'ai signale (T'oung Pao, 1914, p. 640) que des textes
chinois mentionnent effectivement que Po-lo (Bolod), envoye en mission
aupres d'Arghun en 1285, resta ensuite en Perse.
C'est donc en definitive
le Pulad (= Bolod) de Rashid-ud-Din qui serait le Po-lo qu'a la suite de
Pauthier on a trop longtemps identifie a Marco Polo."
Introduction, p. 23.
"The Yuean Shi contains curious confirmation of the facts which led up to
Marco Polo's conducting a wife to Arghun of Persia, who lost his spouse in
1286. In the eleventh moon of that year (say January, 1287) the following
laconic announcement appears: 'T'a-ch'a-r Hu-nan ordered to go on a
mission to A-r-hun.' It is possible that Tachar and Hunan may be two
individuals, and, though they probably started overland, it is probable
that they were in some way connected with Polo's first and unsuccessful
attempt to take the girl to Persia." (E.H. PARKER, Asiatic Quart. Rev.,
Jan., 1904, p. 136.)
Introduction, p. 76 n.
With regard to the statue of the Pseudo-Marco Polo of Canton, Dr. B.
Laufer, of Chicago, sends me the following valuable note: -
THE ALLEGED MARCO POLO LO-HAN OF CANTON.
The temple Hua lin se (in Cantonese Fa lum se, i.e. Temple of the
Flowery Grove) is situated in the western suburbs of the city of Canton.
Its principal attraction is the vast hall, the Lo-han t'ang, in which are
arranged in numerous avenues some five hundred richly gilded images, about
three feet in height, representing the 500 Lo-han (Arhat). The workmanship
displayed in the manufacture of these figures, made of fine clay thickly
covered with burnished gilding, is said to be most artistic, and the
variety of types is especially noticeable.
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