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of Eastern Turlcistan. 
thical personages Juqta Rashid and Nukta Rashid as the then chiefs of 
Khotan : 
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“ Two infidels were kings of Khotan, the people of Khotan were 
their soldiers ; 
“ One of them they called Juqta Rashid j the name of the other 
dog Nukta Rashid.” 
In the Tazkiratu ’1-Bughra we hear of Juqta Rashid and Nukta Rashid 
from a little later than 429 A. H. (A. I). 1037) until 596 A. H. (A. D. 
1199). They are probably mere representative names. Khotan seems here 
to be considered as belonging to China. R. B. S. 1877.] 
