486 : 4 KAZEM-BE6, 
lage of Gkara-Gkaitagh,. lying on the river Mimri-üzen, near! which (about 7 miles to the 
east), upon the shores of the sea, lies the present Gkayé-kend, for which K]laproth has m- 
vented a new name, alerts (see remark 12 to Part IL). Our author, it seems, confounds 
the two names, and the supposed omission in our MS. increases the misunderstanding. There 
is however one circumstance which may throw light on the subject, and solve the question, 
why ÆAumri is explained by the name of Gkayé-kend. Tradition asserts that every village and 
habitation situated among the hills and mountains of Hümri, was anciently named Gkayé-kend, 
which means à tumulose town or à town situated on rocks. 
Remark 29. page 462 line 13. 
In our MS. the reader finds nothing of the passage in the Berlin MS. regarding « Chah- 
Tsfendiar » &c. as quoted in Klaproth’s translation. The version of St. Petersburg also gives 
us the following: (? U> slloé) OU DL ds LS 9° fe el) OU Ja Jel pr) Os ysë s) 
«sl Ceb  aali olé D Lux > pal Ji &> vhs ul phil LS as aile) 
(ÉkLol or Dylel) volet LS Lost Gobt Lis ul is pe obl ous Jel 3) 
æ . 
CET S DSL ,s (eye) osLks « Noushirvan chose them a governor from among his own 
family (relations) ; he divided the distance between Saddi- Alpen and Jhran into seven climates, 
(or districts). Previously to Noushirvan, /sfendiar-padishäh built m these climates (some) for- 
tresses, over which he had appointed a governor from among his family. (These were) rumed. 
The inhabitants of the residency of lhran and of Gulbäkh were brought by Isfendiar from Kho- 
rasân», &c. — In this place in the MS. of Paris, according to Klaproth, we may read the 
following: El) SH) Oops) 1555 9 D) CE ep) sy as EL La og ls) aals 
re JU rl be I pare y et ail ol] (üs=)) US! « The artisans of Isfendiar had - 
worked up in the fortress of Ihrân a golden throne where they (he, i. e. Isfendiar?) resided 
wherefore Ihran is called Séhib-serir (the possessor, or the place, of the throne.); but the 
Arabs name it, The seal (the end) of the mountains.» This quotation, to which we have once 
referred our readers, does not at all belong to this place in the Derbend-nameh, and we 
find very nearly the same in the MS. of St. Petersburg, about two pages previous to this 
place: 2? ol») ki alle >L Éd) 2255) sl (es og) boul oJils| 
«Isfendiar, having erected a throne of gold in Ihran, resided there. The kingdom of this cli- 
mate is called The residency of Thran.» (see above, rem. 19 and 13.). 
This account in all three versions of the Derbend-nâmeh, which we do not find in our MS,., 
is, In my opinion, the result of a corruption of some traditions, which we find in the ancient 
historical works of the Arabs and Persians. One of these traditions says, that a king of Persia 
had appointed one of his relations a viceroy over all Aderbijan, Armenia, and over all the 
frontiers of the Khazars. This was, according to the authors of Vuzhet (see there the word 
J Hem), Rouzetus -safd and Mesälik, the famous Bahrami-tchoubin, whose exploits are pro- 
