Both carved from the stone
quarries of Fu Ping Hien; the material is a black, sub-granular limestone
with small oolithes scattered through it" (Frits V. Holm, The Nestorian
Monument, Chicago, 1900). In this pamphlet there is a photograph of the
tablet as it stands in the Pei lin.
Prof. Ed. Chavannes, who also visited Si-ngan in 1907, saw the Nestorian
Monument; in the album of his Mission archeologique dans la Chine
Septentrionale, Paris, 1909, he has given (Plate 445) photographs of the
five tablets, the tablet itself, the western gate of the western suburb of
Si-ngan, and the entrance of the temple Kin Sheng Sze.
Cf. Notes, pp. 105-113 of Vol. I, of the second edition of Cathay and the
Way thither.
II., p. 27.
KHUMDAN.
Cf. Kumudana, given by the Sanskrit-Chinese vocabulary found in Japan
(Max MUELLER, Buddhist Texts from Japan, in Anecdota Oxoniensia, Aryan
Series, t. I., part I., p. 9), and the Khumdan and Khumadan of
Theophylactus. (See TOMASCHEK, in Wiener Z.M., t. III., p. 105;
Marquart, Eransahr, pp. 316-7; Osteuropaeische und Ostasiatische
Streifzuege, pp. 89-90.) (PELLIOT.)
XLI., p. 29 n. The vocabulary Hwei Hwei (Mahomedan) of the College of
Interpreters at Peking transcribes King chao from the Persian Kin-chang, a
name it gives to the Shen-si province. King chao was called Ngan-si fu in
1277.
