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| Mauryan Khotan colonization | |||||||||
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| Part of Khotan conquests | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Mauryans | Group of Chinese people | ||||||||
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| The son of the Indian Emperor Ashoka (maybe Kushtana or Kunala) | Unknown | ||||||||
Colonization of the Chinese region
In the 1900s, Aurel Stein discovered Prakrit documents written in Kharoṣṭhī in Niya, and together with the founding legend of Khotan, Stein proposed that these people in the Tarim Basin were Indian immigrants who conquered and colonized Khotan. The first inhabitants of the region appear to have been Indians from the Maurya Empire according to its founding legends, who may have fought against a group of Chinese people.
Indian foundation of Khotan
According to the oldest detailed Chinese and Tibetan texts (which we cannot distrust), the colonizing groups of exiled Indians (including the son and ministers of Emperor Ashoka) founded the Kingdom of Khotan.
Aftermath
Many years after, according to reports, Buddhism was introduced to Khotan in 84 B.C.
References
- Stein, Aurel. On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks: vol.1. p. 91.
- Mallory, J. P.; Mair, Victor H. (2000). The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. Thames & Hudson. p. 77-81. ISBN 978-0-500-05101-6.
- Emmerick, R. E. (14 April 1983). "Chapter 7: Iranian Settlement East of the Pamirs". In Ehsan Yarshater (ed.). The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol III: The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian Periods, Part 1. Cambridge University Press; Reissue edition. p. 263. ISBN 978-0-521-20092-9.
- Emmerick, R. E. (1979). A Guide to the Literature of Khotan. Reiyukai Library. p. 4-5.