Derbend-nâmeh or the History of Derbend. 585 
à ; ; In the year (two) hundred and sixty, Ha- 
dé 0 a ce sd)» ul 1» ( (#1) ev shim the son # Ra the bb 
Et Up El LH) a à Svp Uloni =le of Shirwan, took Derbend bu Hashim, the 
son of Sherdgkeh, and improved it and built 
there a store-house for collecting the tithes 
y) Celà > 5 ass dsl Lee (? n ne J,1) (which were to be gathered from the districts 
TT AT : ‘ .  [subjugated to Derbend?), in order to distribute 
Ds M CER TE ils mis Jo nsaïlel on né “e the ul in time of need. In 
Lo ll Jar af 5055, ado JS a ie are said to have been many 
. _ | vigardens and lands, consecrated to the inhabi- 
cyé vb pb GK Ciné » db Gi all tants of Derbend by the Sovereign of Shir- 
* Lys wân. — The Princes of Sbirwän began the 
| system of tyranny. 
Us J 4 af SL ls CES EE) SOA] Je 
REMARKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 
TO 
PART THE EIGHTH. 
Remark 1. page 581. 
“We have here made the same additions in parentheses as we considered necessary in the 
title of Part VII. We have, besides, added the name &SJ&e Mehdi, who possessed his father's 
throne in 158. In the MS. of St. Petersburg we do not find any name im this place, it is there 
said indefinitely: « Zhe Khalif of Bagdad», but in Klaproth’s translation we read Mehdi- 
notice.of my judicious readers. May there not be an omission of one or two words in the text of the St. Peters- 
burg MS.? Can we not take the syllable {3 after dase for cp? May we not think that there were two 
Häshims who governed Derbend in 255 and 260? Was not the first of these the son of Sherâgkeh or rather 
Serâgkeh mentioned in the following passage of the same version? Then I would render the passage thus: 
- 7 n pi & " . 8 Ê . . = 
à SJ STE 5 CP? Uy> dune: as] Ted pi a (spl 0> cé p ing) CPL 
ht was in the year 255 that Hashim the son of Seragkeh, the son of Mensayeh (I do not know any such proper 
name as Mansayeh) the son of Jeiune, the son of Nejm possessed Derbend. » :In such case this Hashim will 
be the grand son to the same Jeiune, who, according to the calculation of all the three versions, lived in 460» 
i, e. 90 years previous to the epoch named here, 
