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6. Mk *ad*, Bmd, Vy *e* (v.l.)—चीनाश्चैव तुषाराश्च; Vy *acde*—पीनाश्चैव तुषाराश्च; Mk *bc*—चीनाश्चैव तुखाराश्च; Vmn—वेणाश्चैव तुषाराश्च. चीन = the Tibeto-Chinese peoples. तुखार, तुषार—cf. Tukhāristān of the Arabs which included the old Bactria and indicated the mountainous country on both sides of the middle Oxus as far as Badakhshan though the country to the south of the river was usually understood by the name (Wellhausen, *The Arab Kingdom and its Fall*, tr. p. 430). For the Chinas, see Jarret, *Ain-i-Akbarī*, pp. 118-19; also below, p. 60, n. 6; p. 61, n.1; Chapter IV.