パルヴァタ考

Abstract

According to documents in the Kharosthi script, presumably of around the third or fourth century A. D., there was a land called Parvata in the mountainous area south of the Niya ruins (Cad'ota). An examination of five of the Kharosthi texts, nos. 637, 634, 622, 635 and 633, reveals that sometime not much later than the first day of the sixth month of the eleventh year of the reign of King Mayiri, two people named Kala Kirteya and Kala Pumnabala (Kala Pumnyabala) along with those who received the latter's orders named Cikimto (Cgito), Sagamoya, Tumpala and Cakola (Cakuvala) et. al. set out for Parvata from the district of Cad'ota in order to carry out the business of "vasdhiga." Furthermore, it seems that the necessities like wine and provisions for the journey were provided from the building N. XXIX, where these five documents were discovered. In all probability, the journey also had a purpose of trade. Regarding the problem of the location of Parvata, it probably was around the area of the neighborhood of Kara Sai that was at the intersection of the upper reaches of the Endere Darya River and the bypass coming from Dalai Kurgan.