{"book":"adl0978","page":48,"text":"with his dependents. He headed for Yuehchih and, after travel-\nling several tens of days, came to Tayuan. The King of Tayuan\nhad learnt of the riches of Han and wished to trade with it\nbut could not. He was glad to see Chang Ch'ien and asked\nhim where he was going. Chang Ch'ien answered: \"I was sent by\nthe Han Emperor as envoy to Yuehchih. But the Huns blocked\nmy way.\n\nNow I have escaped from the Huns. I hope Your Majesty\nwill appoint people to be my guide. If I should be assisted to\nreach Yuehchih and then return to Han,my country would give\nYour Majesty gifts beyond description.\" The King of Tayuan\nagreed and gave Chang Ch'ien an escort. Chang Ch'ien came to\nKang-Chu (Sogdiana), and from there to the Greater Yuehchih. The\noriginal King of the Greater Yuchchih having been killed by\nthe Huns, the prince was made the new King. The new King of\nYuehchih, having subdued Tahsia (Bactria), ruled over much fer-\ntile land, led an easy life and had no aggressive ambitions.\n\nHe noted that his country was far away from Han and had\nno desire to take revenge on the Huns. Chang Ch'ein followed the\nKing of Yuehchih to Tahsia, but got nothing out of his mission to\nYuehchih. So after staying there for more than a year, Chang Ch'ien\nreturned to the Linked Southern mountains. From there he tried\nto Han through the Ch'iang tribes but was again detained by the\nHuns and stayed with them for more than a year. Then the Khan\ndied ( 127 B.C. ), and Prince Li of the Eastern Valley attacked the\nPrince royal and made himself Khan. Taking advantage of the civil\nstrife, Chang Ch'ien fled and returned to Han, taking with him\nhis Hun wife and Kan Fu. He was appointed Taichungtafu ( High\nCounsellor ) by the Emperor, and Kan Fu was appointed Fengshih-\nchun ( Royal Attendant ). Chang Ch'ien was of a strong and generous\ncharacter. He had trust in others and was loved by the barbarian\npeople. Kan Fu was of Hun origin and was skilled in marksmanship.\nIn privation he could find food by shooting fowls and beasts with\nbow and arrows. Chang Ch'ien had started with more than a hundred\nfollowers. After being away for thirteen years, only they two returned.\n- 2 -","chars":2155,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0978/00048.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/adl0978/48","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0978/canvas/48","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."}}