1840.] from Bactrian and Indo- Scythian coins. 485 



Stoopas, which are attributed to the Indian king Azoka. The lan- 

 guage and characters of this country were, however, not Indian. 



The empire Falanou, extending to the south, the situation 

 of which most probably is on the river Baran, still belonged 

 at that period to the kingdom Kiapiche. This river is often 

 mentioned by Mr. Masson, and still more often by Sultan 

 Baber, and it is strange enough, neither of them distinctly say 

 what river is meant by it. According to Baber, the Alingar dis- 

 embogues into the Baran, (p. 276) and in travelling from Cabul 

 to Lamghan on crossing the Baran, § two distinct plains are met 

 with between the foot of the mountains of Gurbend, and the 

 river Baran. Baber goes down along the Baran to collect the 

 revenues of Nijrow. Hence Baran must be the name for the 

 united Gurbend and Panjhir rivers downwards to Lamghan. 

 The statement of Falanou lying below Thsaokiutho, leads to the 

 same conclusion, and it is a much more certain one than the dis- 

 tances, incorrectly stated regarding this immediate region, enable 

 us to arrive at; but I cannot enter here upon an examination 

 of them. It must be the Kohdaman, perhaps the Verena of the 

 Vendidad. Beghram probably was, in Falanou, separated, as it 

 appears from Cabul. Falanou, though a province of Kiapiche, 

 is still assigned to India, however little similarity the language 

 is said to have had to Indian idioms. It seems to have been 

 here, that the distinctive separation of the spoken languages 

 occurred. 



In his journey to India Hiuan Thsang, does not describe 

 Falanou and Thsaokiutho, but he goes from Kiapiche to Lampho. 

 This seems to intimate, that he travelled a mid-course, between 

 the two above mentioned countries, upon the great road, which, 

 leaving Thsaokiutho to the left and Falanou to the right, leads 

 over Beghram to Nijrow, Lamghan and Jelalabad. (Masson As. 

 T. V. p. 2.) 



Lampho is 600 lis distant, in an easterly direction, from 

 Kiapiche, the way goes through difficult defiles, it was on the 

 confines of India, and lies about the Black mountains ; they are 

 perhaps the Siahkoh on the river Kohdaman. (Masson I. 1. p. 2) 



Lampho certainly cannot be any thing other than Lamghan, 



§ pp. 276. 294. 326. 



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