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The Name of China and its Geography in Cosmas Indicopleustes |
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时间：2009-7-24 13:48:43 来源：不详
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epresents one form of Činastān (i.e. the land of Cina), and written as Tzinistan in Syriac in the well-known Nestorian Tablet of Si-gan fou. Činastān, in its turn, appeared as Cinasthāna in Sanscrit, and as Činistan (or Činastān) in Persian (Pahlevi). Obviously, Tzinista had more chance to derive from the Persian Činistan or the Syriac Tzinistan in its origin.
Historically, our suggestion is also reinforced by several evident facts: first of all, Cosmas was a trader in his early career, his statement that he had sailed upon the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf for commercial pursuits,[10] and that he admitted contemptuously in his later life that people “who to procure silk for the miserable gains of commerce, hesitate not to travel to the uttermost ends of the earth”,[11] demonstrates that he had been familiar with or had participated in the gain-thirst silk trade in the western stage of the silk road in his earlier career as a trading dealer, although he had less chance to extend his commercial sphere to Tzinitza; In this capacity, he was上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] ... 下一页 >> |
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