《十二国》的西夏文译本

On the Translation of Twelve States in Xixia Script

本文通过考校汉文文献,指出西夏《十二国》70章的母本即唐人孙昱所撰《十二国史》,并释读此前未能解读的《十二国》篇章和寻找其原始出处。

Twelve States in Xixa script was translated from a Chinese folk historical record lost for a long time. Preliminary studies were made by Russian and Chinese scholars, but the nomenclature in Chinese and the detail of its contents remained unknown. The aim of the present paper is to point out, by investigating some Chinese classical literature, that the original of Twelve States in Xixa script should be A History of the Twelve States compiled by Sun in Tang Dynasty, and to metaphrase and explain the origin of some historical records unsolved before.