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YU Taishan, “The Communication Lines between East and West as Seen in the Mu Tianzi Zhuan” Sino-Platonic Papers, 197 (January, 2010) sands and southeast of Kunlun Hills. Mount Kunlun is west of the Western Hu. These places are all in the northwest. 這說明諸水、玉山與昆侖山有不解之緣,應該都是傳說中的山水。大概旣認定昆侖有玉山、出有色水,在沿阿爾泰山南北行進時遇見山水便往往附會之。 30 質言之,在比定《穆天子傳》有關昆侖諸山水時,亦無須受《山海經》記載之束縛。 This shows that these colored rivers and jade mounts are tightly bound to Mount Kunlun, which must be the mountains and rivers in the legend. Since it is firmly believed that there were jade mounts and colored rivers in Mount Kunlun, by false analogy one might consider wrongly that the mountains and rivers he met were the jade mounts and colored rivers seen when he went along the north or south foot of the Altai Mountains. 30 In other words, it is unnecessary to be fettered by the records of the Shanhai Jing when we identify the mountains and rivers related to the Kunlun in the Mu Tianzi Zhuan. 四、以上將焉居、巨蒐讀作 Asii,將禺知、骨飦讀作 Gasiani,將赤烏、珠余和余讀作 Sacarauli(或 Sakā Rawaka),將重豅或西夏讀作 Tochari,乃基於我關於塞種史的一個假說: To read “Yanju” and “Jusou” as Asii, “Yuzhi” and “Gugan” as Gasiani, “Chiwu,” “Zhyu” and “Shouyu” as Sacarauli (or Sakā Rawaka), “Zhongyong” and “Xi Xia” as Tochari is at the base of my hypothesis on the history of the Sai tribes: 阿喀美尼朝波斯大流士一世(Darius I,前 521-486 年在位)貝希斯登(Behistun) 銘文所見 Sakā 人(在《漢書·西域傳》中稱爲“塞種”),主要包括四個部落或部族:Asii、 Gasiani,Tochari 和 Sacarauli。公元前七世紀末葉,Asii 等部已出現在伊犂河、楚河流域。 Sakā 諸部可能來自東方。Asii,Gasiani,Tochari 和 Sacarauli 似卽先秦典籍所見允姓之戎、禺知(禺氏)、大夏和莎車。其活動地域大致在黃河以西,阿爾泰山之東。前 623 年,秦 22
YU Taishan, “The Communication Lines between East and West as Seen in the Mu Tianzi Zhuan” Sino-Platonic Papers, 197 (January, 2010) 穆公稱霸西戎,拓地千里,或者因此引起了 Sakā 諸部的西遷。 31 出現在《穆天子傳》中的 Sakā 諸部旣可能是西遷後留在東方故地的餘種,也可能是處在西遷過程中的分枝。由於《穆天子傳》所據資料的年代不易一一確定,不能指實。 The Sakās of the Behistun inscription of Darius I (521–486 B.C.) of Achaemenian Persia (i.e., the Sai tribes as seen in the Hanshu, ch. 96A) were mainly made up of four tribes, the Asii, the Gasiani, the Tochari, and the Sacarauli. By the end of the seventh century B.C., the Asii and other tribes already lived in the valleys of the Rivers Ili and Chu. The Sakā tribes had possibly come from the east. The Asii, the Gasiani, the Tochari, and the Sacarauli seem to have been the Rong of the surname Yun, the Yuzhi (Yuzhi), the Daxia, and the Suoju who appeared in pre-Qin records and books. The sphere of their movement roughly covered the area from the west of the Yellow River to the east of the Altai Mountains. In 623 B.C., Duke Mu of Qin dominated the Western Rong and opened up territories that extended for 1,000 li. This event possibly caused the Sai tribes’ western migration. 31 It is possible that the Sakā tribes who appear in the Mu Tianzi Zhuan were those who remained in their eastern homeland after the above-mentioned westward movement, or some branches during the course of the westward movement. But which is the correct situation? It is difficult to affirm, because it is difficult to determine precisely the dates of the sources based on the Mu Tianzi Zhuan. 進入一地的 Sakā 人,不祇是一個部落或部族的成員,其他部落或部族的成員往往也先後或同時進入,人數也多寡不一。這種情況在《穆天子傳》中的反映便是“焉居(Asii)、禺知(Gasiani)之平”這一地名的出現。 32 The Sakās who entered an oasis were not necessarily composed of the members of one tribe alone. The members of other tribes often were there successively, or simultaneously, and their population also varied in number. In the Mu Tianzi Zhuan a reflection of this situation is that the place name “the vast plain of Yanju and Yuzhi” appears. 32 五、以上釋讀過程中,將若干部名視作同名異譯,主要有以下兩種情況: 23
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