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Tocharian royal family of the Kingdom of Kucha (king, wearing a close-fitting, belted caftan with chequered lozenge pattern, queen in a green robe, and fair-haired young princes), Kizil Cave 17. Circa 500 AD. Tocharian clothing refers to clothing worn by the Tocharians.
Kucha or Kuche (also: Kuçar, Kuchar; Uyghur: كۇچار, Кучар; Chinese: 龜茲; pinyin: Qiūcí, Chinese: 庫車; pinyin: Kùchē; Sanskrit: 𑀓𑀽𑀘𑀻𑀦, romanized: Kūcīna) [1] was an ancient Buddhist kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the northern edge of what is now the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin and south of the Muzat River.
Nevertheless, "Tocharian" remained the standard term for the languages of the Tarim Basin manuscripts and for the people who produced them. [7] [17] A few scholars argue that the Yuezhi were originally speakers of Tocharian who later adopted the Bactrian language. [18] The name of Kucha in Tocharian B was Kuśi, with adjectival form kuśiññe.
The Kizilgaha Caves (simplified Chinese: 克孜尔尕哈石窟; traditional Chinese: 克孜爾尕哈石窟; pinyin: Kèzīěrgǎhā shíkū) consist in a Buddhist Temple inside a complex of caves in the area of Kucha, Xinjiang, China. The paintings in the cave go back to the 5th century CE. [1]
The Kizil Caves complex is the largest of the ancient Buddhist cave sites that are associated with the ancient Tocharian kingdom of Kucha, as well as the largest in Xinjiang. Other famous sites nearby are the Kizilgaha caves, the Kumtura Caves, Subashi Temple and the Simsim caves.
In Kucha and elsewhere in Chinese Turkestan he collected hundreds of woodslips with inscriptions in Sanskrit and Tocharian. Pelliot arrived at the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang a year after Stein, where he acquired thousands of manuscripts from the ' Library Cave ' (Cave 17), as well as hundreds of manuscripts and printed texts from Caves 464 and 465 ...
Tocharian B (Kuchean or West Tocharian) of Kucha and Tocharian A sites. Prakrit documents from 3rd-century Krorän and Niya on the southeast edge of the Tarim Basin contain loanwords and names that appear to come from a closely related language, referred to as Tocharian C .
These events were soon before the Tang campaign against Kucha in 648 CE. [6] Suvarna-deva is known from an inscription in which he is called in Tocharian "Swarnatepe": [14] [1] [ika]ṃ ṣe kṣuṃntsa piṅkce [meṃ]ne • [i] during the 21st year, in the 5th month … oroccepi lānte swarnatepi kṣ(u)ṃ[n](e) a3 [r]e [ā]k(ṣ)a •