317; J. R. Geog.
Soc. III. 294.) [Dr. Bretschneider (Med. Res. I. p. 184) says that in
the description of Yun-nan, in the Yuen-shi, "Cara-jang and
Chagan-jang are rendered by Wu-man and Po-man (Black and White
Barbarians). But in the biographies of Djao-a-k'o-p'an, A-r-szelan
(Yuen-shi, ch. cxxiii.), and others, these tribes are mentioned under the
names of Ha-la-djang and Ch'a-han-djang, as the Mongols used to call
them; and in the biography of Wu-liang-ho t'ai. [Uriang kadai], the
conqueror of Yun-nan, it is stated that the capital of the Black Barbarians
was called Yach'i. It is described there as a city surrounded by lakes
from three sides." - H.C.]
[Illustration: A Saracen of Carajan, being a portrait of a Mahomedan
Mullah in Western Yun-nan. (From Garnier's Work.)
"Les sunt des plosors maineres, car il hi a jens qe aorent Maomet." ]
Regarding Rashiduddin's application of the name Kandahar or Gandhara to
Yun-nan, and curious points connected therewith, I must refer to a paper
of mine in the J.R.A.Society (N.S. IV. 356). But I may mention that
in the ecclesiastical translation of the classical localities of Indian
Buddhism to Indo-China, which is current in Burma, Yun-nan represents
Gandhara,[5] and is still so styled in state documents (Gandalarit).
What has been said of the supposed name Caraian disposes, I trust, of
the fancies which have connected the origin of the Karens of Burma with
it.
