1866.] 



MeynanVs Tbn EJwrdudbeh. 



139 



No. of 

 Villages 



No. of 

 . Bams. 



Wheat. 



Barley. 



Dvrhwms. 



— 



— 



3,000 



5,100 



120,000 



6 



26(?) 



3,000 



2,000 



120,000 



— 



— 



600 



500 



35,000 



5 



51 



600 



500 



100,000 



21 



380 



— 



— 



— 



— 



— 



1,700 



1,300 



53,000 



— 



— 



2,700 



1,800 



350,000 



— 



— 



1,000 

 1,000 



500 

 500 



100,000 

 100,000 



— 



— 



1,000 

 4,700 



1,200 

 5,000 



150,000 

 33,000 



7 



— 



4,700 



5,000 



330,000 



— 



— 



1,000 



1,400 



246,000 



— 



— 



2,000 



1,500 



150,000 



9,000 4,000 480,000 



— 8,500,000 



Beraz alrrid, ... 



•Ditto, ... 

 Bandanjayn, ... 



♦Ditto, ... 



*The th ree Nah ra irdu, . . . 



Upper Nahrawan, . . . 



♦Ditto, 



Middle Nahrawan, 



♦Ditto, ... 



Lower Nahrawan, 



Baduraya and Baksaya, 



•Ditto ditto, ... 



Rustuqbad, 



Silsyl and Makrud, 



The Kara (provinces) of the Tigris 



yielded in A.H. 260 (266 ?), — 

 Land-tax of the Kura (provinces) 



of the Tigris, — 



In reference to the Ighar of Yaqtyn, mentioned in the preceding 

 list, Qodama says, no mention was made of it in the clays of the 

 Persians, nor was there such an Ighar existing in their times. 

 Yaqtyn had claims on the government, and he received as payment 

 lands in various districts, subsequently they lapsed to the government, 

 and they were called Ighar of Yaqtyn. The canal of Qilla was dug 

 by order of Mahcliy in the districts of Wasit. and thereby a good deal 

 of waste land was reclaimed. The produce (of the Ighar and of the 

 reclaimed land) was destined for prayers and defraying other expenses 

 in the two holy places (Makka and Madyna). It is said the arrange- 

 ment was made that two-fifths of the crops were to be given up by the 

 cultivators for this purpose. This settlement was to last fifty years, 

 after the lapse of which a new settlement was to be made. 



Ighiir (j^\ ) is correctly explained by Barbier de Meynard, 

 diet, geogr. de la Perse, p. 65, " II s' applique a une ville ou a une 

 propriety qui, moyennant une certaine somme stipulee une fois pour 

 toutes, et payee chaque annee directement au soulthan, est exemptee 

 de la visite et du controle des percepteurs du fisc." Qodama defines it 



