TT a j.^-i^.*^ 1 Jushi named Bahua, who under the Chinese general Hephtalites. According to Enoki, this tribe was' vu AA', A...,,..^,,.?,'TT* Ban Yong had rendered distinguished services in con a local one whose origin was the western Hima-quering the Northern savages (layan Mountains. This idea is based on geography promoted to Hou-bu Qin-han-h and on some Iranian names attested among them terior Jushi, who is friendly t but also on the fact that the Chinese sources de-ment of Ban Yong. 3 scribed polyandry as one of the Hephtalite cus toms. Polyandry, well known on the Western Enoki correctly rejected th Tibetan plateau and quite unusual elsewhere, ing the Hephtalites with a J was used by Enoki as the cornerstone of his dem-learned gloss. But did the a onstration of the local origin of the Hephtalites tary deduce that the inhabitan (pp. 51-55). Hua were Jushi from the ethnic identity of Ba What Enoki could not have foreseen is the dis-Hua only, or was" Jushi" a data covery in the Rob archive of a polyandrie mar-had to deal? Enoki answered riage contract antedating the first mention of the another article, published in Hephtalites in Bactria by a century. 2 As usual in ography of Pei Ziye (471-5 the Chinese descriptions of the Western world, deed clear that the only info their authors simply mixed together customs of court had was the name of Hua the various components of the Bactrian society theory is devoid of any basis:" D and gave them the name of the leading tribe, that there were beyond the North of the Hephtalites. Polyandry was a genuine Bac-the states of Boti and Hua, who sent envoys trian custom, not a Hephtalite one. While logical through the mountain road of the Min (river, in half a century ago, Enoki's hypothesis can no Sichuan) to offer tribute. These two states had longer be regarded as demonstrated. It is time to not been guests of the successive dynasties, their return to the Chinese texts, our main sources. origin was unknown" 7 § B# f § jMTfWËJ J8S. fi Enoki proceeded in his article by following the g. JjtlïËÈlIlSllJllÀÂ* Jtfc—various origins of the Hepthalites that can be tfi*. Then Pei Ziye continues with his erudite found in the Chinese sources: first the Jushi, an explanation of both names, and the emperor or ancient tribe located to the north of Turfan; then ders him to write an illustrated treaty on the for the Da Yuezhi, the tribes that conquered Bactria eign countries, which is the source for chapter 54 in the second century bc; and finally the Gaoju, of the Liangshu. 4 the Turkic tribe that conquered the Turfan region While this chapter gives a good deal of in in the fifth century ad formation about the Hephtalites, it is strange