Re: Fw: [tied] Re: "As"

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> So this name has not been coined in Chinese : it's
> a rendering of something heard and hesitation about
> the best match produced two variants.
>
> ==================
>
>
>
> ****GK: Cf. the material at
>
>

http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/hhshu/hou_han_shu.html#sec13,

> esp. the popup at footnote 1.
>
> In any case, what's important here is not so much
> what
> the Chinese meant by "Yuezhi" as the
> archaeological
> evidence, and the evidence of Western classical
> sources such as Strabo and Trogus/Justinus.****
>
> ========
>
> A.F
>
> Sorry, but I do think that this name "YueZhi" is
> relevant.

****GK: It's about as "relevant" as "Xiongnu"
(:=)))****


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