{"book":"adl0978","page":46,"text":"neighbour to Tayuan. Being a small country, it paid allegiance\nto Yuehchih in the south and to the Huns in the east.\n\nYetsai was about 2,000 li away to the northwest of Kangchu.\nIt was a nomad people and had similar customs as Kangchu. It\nhad more than a hundred thousand archers. It was on the shore of\na big, boundless lake called the North Sea (Caspian Sea).\n\nThe Greater Yuehchih was between 2 and 3 thousand li\naway to the west of Tayuan and situated on the northern bank of\nthe Wei River. To its south was Tahsia, to its west Anhsi and to\nits north Kangchu. It was a nomad people travelling about with\ntheir cattle and had the same customs as the Huns. It had\nbetween one and two hundred thousand archers and therefore\ntook pride in its own strength and looked down upon Hsiungnu.\nAfter Moden became the Khan, Hsiungnu defeated Yuehchih. And\nthen the Laoshang Khan (Moden's son) killed the King of Yueh-\nchih and made a wine cup out of his skull. At first the\nYuehchih people dwelt between Tunhuang and the Chilien\nmountain. After being defeated by Hsiungnu they moved far to\nthe west of Tayuan and attacked and subjected Tahsia. They\nsettled their court and built their capital on the northern bank\nof the Wei River. The remaining small numbers who were unable\nto depart stayed among the southern mountains of Ch'iang and\nwere called the Lesser Yuehchih.\n\nAnhsi was several thousand li to the west of the Greater\nYuehchih. The people were settled down and tilled the land.\nThey grew rice and wheat in their fields and produced grape wines.\nTheir counties were similar to those of Tayuan. The country\nhad several hundred cities, big and small, and measured several\nthousand square li and was one of the biggest countries. It\nbordered on the Wei River and had citizens and merchants\nwho used to ply by chariot or boat between nearby countries,\nsometimes to a distance of several thousand li. They made silver\ncoins embossed with images of their King's head. When a king\ndied, they used to change the coins to conform to the new\n-4-","chars":2036,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0978/00046.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":51,"title":"Tāyān : faṣl-i 123 Shī Chī yā asnād-i tārīkhī تايان : فصل ١٢٣ شى چى ىا اسناد تاريخى","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0978/46","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0978/canvas/46","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0978/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0978_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}