1866.] 



MeynarcVs Tbn Khordddbeh. 



No. of No. of 

 Villages. Barns. Wheat. 



... — — 3,000 



139 



6 26(?) 



5 

 21 



54 



380 



3,000 

 600 

 600 



1,700 

 2,700 

 1,000 

 1,000 

 1,000 

 4,700 

 4,700 

 1,000 

 2,000 



Barley. 



5,100 



2,000 



500 



500 



Birliams. 



120,000 



120,000 



35,000 



100,000 



1,300 

 1,800 

 500 

 500 

 1,200 

 5,000 

 5,000 

 1,400 

 1,500 



9,000 4,000 



53,000 

 350,000 

 100,000 

 100,000 

 150,000 



33,000 

 330,000 

 246,000 

 150,000 



430,000 



,500,000 



Beraz alrdd, ... 

 *Ditto, ... 

 Bandanjayn, ... 

 *Ditto, ... 



* The three Nahrawan, ... 



Upper Nahrawan, ... ... — 



*Ditto, ... — 



Middle Nahrawan, — 



*Ditto, ... ... ... — 



Lower Nahrawan, — 



Baduraya and Baksaya, ... — 



*Ditto ditto, ... 7 



Rustuqbad, ... ... — 



Silsyl and Mahrud, — 



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 days 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 Yaqfyn. The canal of £illa was dug 

 by order of Mahdiy 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 w T ere 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. 



Ighar (j^*J| ) is correctly explained by Barbier de Meynard, 

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

 propriete qui, moyennant une certaine somme stipulee une fois pour 

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

 de la visite et du control e des percepteurs du flsc." Qodama defines it 



