Khotan
Britishnoun
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“If the funding drops, all of that momentum will be lost,” said Khotan Harmon, senior program officer for the city of Austin.
From Washington Times • Aug. 26, 2023
When foreign archaeologists found an ancient town, they defined it by longitude and latitude, and then tried to match its site with one of Xuanzang’s vanished cities: Khotan, Kucha, Agni.
From New York Times • May 11, 2020
Samir turned back to the crowd and nodded at a straight-faced horseman, who said, “I heard about the Rogue Legion, and those guys in Khotan really hated the saddles you sold them.”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Traditions respecting the origin of Khotan are preserved in the travels of Hsüan Chuang and also in the Tibetan scriptures, some of which are expressly said to be translations from the language of Li.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
The Hindu Kush seems to have been the limit of his dominions but tradition ascribes to this period the joint colonization of Khotan from India and China.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
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