628 A KAZEM-BEG, 
es us LL "| D 1, jan army, it was dispersed and put to flight. 
a pos hole CR ae He went to Nehrevan “. — Now there came 
AIO HS GJEL e RARE él LEE uk information (of this) to Nardjil the son of 
Ée.. - {Khäghan, who at the head of forty thousand 
(sé 35?) hi Le rt Oil 2x5 warriors set out for Nehrevdn to encounter 
Djerrah. The Musulmans were 25'thousand in 
a 5) Oz rs le D oh ELlue number; they met Nardjil while he was on his 
L € ] . 
” RE ae APT Ka  Kiway towards Nehrevdn and defeated him: the 
Ce > ?) R9 s F5 Qi) > Musulmans enriched themselves with plunder. 
Sr ol Lo) pr 0 et HULeTE — Thence they passed onwards and arrived 
jh 7 } ____jat the city of Hesin, and from that place they 
dus, als Pas Ds ol Los. & né Le |proceeded to the! fortress of! Kush{(?) 47. — 
ù 4 hoguE pts 7 There they (the infidels) made peace with 
EE 5 bob) é= able DSi) HOÉ Diorah, From hence, this latter, procceded 
i CT à bf D JL sise .2lto, the icity_of Verghé (Tarkhou), ** -whére 
2 Po ER Ses) De A SR infidels opposed them and HS six pi 
to rest his army. From that place he directed his way Read Babuliabwab Thus he srhcondeils on “ll 
he arrived in a valley called Roudbär. Here Djerrah remained and -sent men to the princes: of tbe mouutains, 
“all of whom came together to him. Now one of the campanions of Djerrah proclaimed in the army “the 
“Amir will remain here three days; gather up for yourselyes provision» — After that he continued towards 
-Babul-abwab!: When he; arrived there, he did ,not find any of the Khazars; the Mussulmans entered into the 
city, and Djerrah placed his army, near the fountain which: was situated in the, direction of Babul- - Djthaq (so | 
I read the Abi- Djihad of Dr, Dorn’s Nachrichten) at a distance of half à farsakh from Babal-abwab (.'e in 
the same direction in which lies the Avain of our Derbend-nameh; see “ I in the Index). Next day À 
“he called one of his companions and gave to him 3000 men and said: go ye into the land of Hida (it “must 
tbe Khaitagk'or the Gkaitagk of our Déerbend - Nämeh), make spoil of all you find and slaughter all who will 
war with you; but endeavour to come back to me before sunrise. — Auother man he called and gave him 
2000 men and said: go to the land of Darsi (it must be the Fersi of our Derbend-nameh) and to Dar- 
vagk and diligently make war and plunder. But Djerrah, himself with ‘the rémaining army, went to the 
Lai of Nehrevan,s On the next: day (the two: genëérals) returned! with ! (spoil consisting of) 10,000 cows 
and shcep, and with 3000 captives. Information care now to Bardjik the ‘son of Khagkan, the king ôf Kia! 
saria, that  Djerrah at. the head of 25,000 Arabs had. invested, Nehrevan » &c. (Compare our, Derbend- nameh 
Part IV — 
46 See Part IV. Remark 1. note c. In a MS. of Teberit it'is said that Nehrevan is Situated at a disiance of 
6 farsakbs; from Derbend.. 
25 Add, N. To both the other TETE afTieb ouf we pe here that «when re scies besieged Hassin 
the inhabitauts of the town sent out a, man: to Djerrah and entreated forbearance and peacen &c Inthe, Per: 
sian translation we havé: Ji: F si Des. Itis very probable that in the Manuseript tu which 
our unknown. Suther has bronclaeil Teberi into Tuskisb, instead of gr he found: Lis which be re for 
the .uame .of, a fortresss.—;.l; : {ui 
4 
48, See Remark 4 to: Part TV: :4dd) N° For da à of our text we read in Dr. Dorn’s ss Este 
Bee our Remark! 3 to Part IV. and Dr, Dorn’s Naclrichten àc. page %1. note 2 
