The _Great Hosanna_ was, though ingenious, a misinterpretation of Gaubil’s. Mr. Wylie has sent me a paper of his own (in _Chin. Recorder and Miss. Journal_, July, 1871, p. 45), which makes things perfectly clear. The expression transcribed by Pauthier, _Yao-săn-wen_, and rendered “Hosanna,” appears in a Chinese work, without reference to this inscription, as _Yao-săn-wăh_, and is in reality only a Chinese transcript of the Persian word for Sunday, “_Yak-shambah_.” Mr. Wylie verified this from the mouth of a Peking Mahomedan. The 4th of February, 781 _was_ Sunday; why _Great_ Sunday? Mr. Wylie suggests, possibly because the first Sunday of the (Chinese) year. The monument exhibits, in addition to the Chinese text, a series of short inscriptions in the Syriac language, and _Estranghelo_ character, containing the date of erection, viz. 1092 of the Greeks (= A.D. 781), the name of the reigning Patriarch of the Nestorian church MAR HANAN ISHUA (dead in 778, but the fact apparently had not reached China), that of ADAM, Bishop and Pope of Tzinisthán (_i.e._ China), and those of the clerical staff of the capital which here bears the name, given it by the early Arab Travellers, of _Kúmdán_. There follow sixty-seven names of persons in Syriac characters, most of whom are characterised as priests (_Kashíshá_), and sixty-one names of persons in Chinese, all priests save one. [It appears that Adam (_King-tsing_), who erected the monument under Te-Tsung was, under the same Emperor, with a Buddhist the translator of a Buddhist sûtra, the Saṭpâramitâ from a Hu text. (See a curious paper by Mr. J. Takakusu in the _T’oung Pao_, VII pp. 589–591.) Mr. Rockhill (_Rubruck_, p. 157, _note_) makes the following remarks. “It is strange, however, that the two famous Uigur Nestorians, Mar Jabalaha and Rabban Cauma, when on their journey from Koshang in Southern Shan-hsi to Western Asia in about 1276, while they mention ‘the city of Tangut,’ or Ning-hsia on the Yellow River as an important Nestorian centre, do not once refer to Hsi-anfu or Chang-an. Had Chang-an been at the time the Nestorian Episcopal see, one would think that these pilgrims would have visited it, or at least referred to it. (_Chabot, Mar Jabalaha_, 21)”—H. C.]