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On the other side Selman [and] Rabïai-bähili with forty reckless warriors advan- 
ced as partisans with a challenge: the rest, exclaiming Ællahu-akbar, followed them 
in battalions and broke into the ranks of the enemy. They fought so furiously that 20,000 
men of the enemy were slaughtered and they themselves became martyrs. The (relics 
of) these forty are now- in Derbend, and are known by the name of Gkirkhlar, or the 
Forty ‘*. After this, the Chinese Khâgkän with the remainder of his army, retired to 
the fortress of Humri, which is now called Gkaye-kend, and having left à garrison 
there, proceeded to the fortress of Znji and from thence to Gulbakh. The Znji-Gkal'a is 
a great city and stands at the distance of three farsakhs from Tarkhou. 
The remaining Musulman troops, wounded and exhausted, returned to Derbend, 
and after some time set out for Syria. About this time a party of the Khazars came and 
took possession of Derbend *?, 
