Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.57

v1.c6.57

Golden official paper, western Han in Urdu in later generations), “kāgaz” in Farsi and “kāgad” in Arabic may have originated from “kagas” in Old Uighur. This may illustrate that Xinjiang’s Turks introduced the paper-making technique into India during the early 8^th century. Volume IV of Yi Jing’s *Nan hai ji hui nei fa zhuan* (*An Account of the Inner Law Sent Home from the South Sea*) describes