Derbend-nâmeh or thè History of Derbend. 637 
PORN Se ss)|mies rushed against each other. and in the 
Dé a jp a ce SH (u jee first attack they defeated the infidels, 
PES pe sh Al JJ bob Élslcut them down ‘and delivered - out of their 
sk, L . [ hands four thousand Musulman  prisoners, 
sl ul Spynl Ubu db us os Al after which they returned again and reposed 
| Fe : : Ê « lin health and safety. 
dols hs 5559) SK Ca} É= ne du 2? The personage on the gray-horse appeared 
sal no res tentlfainal dis 5 again and.said: «Why art-thou reposing thyself! 
Li RE x , Lo, the Khagkan approaches with a hundred 
SH DDR Ce 75 405 95 SI ab j EL 59 DEE thousand men!- but be not afraid; victory is 
y |thine.» — Sa'id sent orders to all quarters; 
Fi Je UT sobles & Ds, Je little and great took arms, so that soon fifty 
hered. Sa’id encount- 
) l Lasagh4ps thousand, men were .gath 
Sy 2) éL e ak Es ered the Khagkan. Both armies met. The 
| be Li, PL É EC & 1e 5 5 jbl troops and regiments were put in order, Said 
LE mounted a Bedouin horse; he saw that the 
52 sol ns E as> JS Sp a, enemy were numerous. He asked where the 
\ ne .IKhagkan was? They answered, that he was 
ob y» oi o59l pe Ji af boël all 02 2 85 before the pillar to which a head was fasten- 
; à ART Se VU ; ed, and that the head was Djerräh's. Sa'id 
DS Lo 3 Hit FEB 2e 9 3 put confidence in God, and im Tekbir, 
ds) n: abl),les ab osoall ,|rushed with bis brave vwarriors and servants 
a dat place; he broke into the ranks of the 
OL ab SE tre SR Kyle RE enemy and dispersed the crowds till he reach- 
ed the person of the Khagkan, fell upon 
DETTE) Lost JE Doéssl Qsid a 3 him, took him by the Ta pulleq 
—— 
probability of my opinion: À) on the newest maps of the Persian frontiers of the Caucasus we find two names; 
a) Berzent, that of a rivulet which runs from S$. to N. and falls into another rivulet named Sari-gkamish 
veryi near the ‘ruins of Gkiz-ghkala. But there about we do not find any town or place of the same or similar 
name. b) Not far from the fortress of Ar pl ; to the west of the little river Dara-yourt, about seven Eogl. 
‘miles fromteach, there is a small village ‘called Berzengan. Both these are on the south of the 4raxes, at not 
_more than 50 Engl. æiles distance from it. 2) Hafiz- Abrou, at the end of the: chapter says, that the-Khazars- 
lost far more] people in the river Araxes, when they crossed it, pursued by the Musulmans than on the 
field of battle (see Dr. Dorn’s Nachrichten &c. p. 150 1. 18). — 
Às 1o the res in the Djaghatai translation of this place, I conjecture that, since the Arabs sometimes 
wrote > for H jy? (see Geographica Caucasia p- 12. line 44), it may be the corruption of the same Berzend. 
Z The subsequent changet might be thus: D), Éd ÉEL é, CE and lastly ELLE 
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