Derbend-nâmeh or the History of Derbend. 487 
verbial in the East. This viceroy, havinse the right of sitting on a throne, had erected à very 
rich one of silver, on the very frontiers of his LOLEnOn and thence his résidence ‘was nimed 
À This word began afterwards to be known among the vulgar and became a proper 
name; so that the surname given by some historians (Æamzeh) to the viceroy of Anüshirvân 
in Serir, or in a part of Daghistan — is oL » y“ Serir-Shäh. — According to Hamzeh the 
Ispahänian, _»_y+ is a Persian word signifying a little throne, i. e. not of à PPS ere] king, but of a 
king of minor authority. He says: sol er] dE DE MSIE rs aigue” Ce Lena sidi ps 
In the ancient legends of Persia, besides this, we have the names »_»# and Sly a je 
as expressing a town near which stands, they say, the cave of Kai-Khosrow: This: béing 
supposed. to, be in, Zurkistän, where; another tradition says, /sfendiar the son of .Kisk- 
täsb, so much celebrated by Firdousi, conquered the Turks and seized « The golden throne » of 
Afré- Siäb and sent it to his father; and 10 this same /sfendiar there being attributed an ex- 
pedition into Armenia and DR — the eastern writers have, paturally, confounded the 
subject. Consult poil é* book L ch, #. under Olorsi y) US — Lol} à dos y T. I], under 
MES", — al EU under _»_y* ; and Li Ole of Tchelébi inder obëll = 
Remark 30. page 462 line 2 and 14. LS5° 
It is a considerable river in Daghistân, which was, and is now, known by different names. 
Its general appellation is Gkoi-sou. It flows from different springs. Those of the mountain of 
Lidokhits form its southern branch, which receives, near the village Jalgha, another little river 
Sirour or Sirouz, and runs on, till, at Zcherkat, it unites itself with the northern branch. This 
southern branch mostly is called Soulagk and sometimes Gkoë-sou. — The northern branch flows 
from the mountains of #nteratal and is called Gkot-sou. From the place of the confluence of the 
two branches down to the present A{nderay, the river again-bears the name of Gkoi-sou; but 
from thence to where it empties itself into the sea, it is known by the name of Soulagk. — 
Ancient geographers considered Gkoï-sou and Soulagk as two entirely different rivers. The first 
they called se # or Ja rt 8 both which mean The river of the sheep. This river flowed, ac- 
cording to them, from the southern parts of Daghistän, or as it ïs said, from the mountains of Sham- 
Khel. — The second they called de or LEE which took its rise on the west of Daghistän and emp- 
ed itself into the sea. (see for Hu 85 and Êr in the geography of QE à ok It appears 
that they meant Le “e the southérn branth of the Ghoi-sou to which we have just referred. 
In the Berhn MS, this river, or rather that part of it which passes throügh Gulbakh, is 
called JA) EI which name Î have never heard and which Î can not analyze”. Another part of 
ire 
Tr The word pa is the 3 person sing. Present tense ind, mood of the verb gs or more correctly 
: # 
