94s R. C. Temple— Route of the Tal Chotiali Field Force. [No. 3, 



KAIS = d. of KHA'LID-BIN-WALI'D. 



Saeaban. Batan. Gurghusht, 



I I I 



Sharf-ud din. Bib! Mato = Shah Husbn = Bibi Mahi Dani. 

 I I d. of Kagh. I 



I II I L I I 



Sh£rax1 Tae.£n. GtHilzai. Ibeahim | | Kakab. Panizai.* 



joined tlie | Lodi. Eaghzai. Sauwani. 



Kakars, | | [ | | 



ToETAEiN. Sp£ntaein Abdal. Suei. Bangash. 



The above genealogy which must of course be taken for what it may 

 be worth, includes a good many of the ancestors of the present Afghan 

 Tribes, but not by any means all. Each, however, has its own genealo- 

 gical legend. It will be observed that the Duranis, the chief or largest tribe 

 are not included in the above genealogy. 



The Pathan Tribes we have to deal with in this paper are the Duranis 

 slightly, and with the Tarins, Kakars, Liinis and Zarkhans more fully. Of 



The common tradition about Afghan is, that the mother of their ancestor Afghana gave 

 him the name because of her exclamation on the favourable answer to her prayers in 

 the pangs of childbirth for a quick delivery, for she said on the birth of the child, 

 "Afghana (I am free)," this being the traditional interpretation of the expression. 

 Another tradition is, that she called out in her pangs " Afghan" or " Fighan" an 

 expression of paiu in the Persian language. According to the Kakar legends " Pathan" 

 is a corruption of Peet Khan, the title given to the Kais above mentioned by the Pro- 

 phet. Kaverty in the Introduction to his Grammar of Pusbto gives an extract from the 

 TAZKiEAT-tTL-MULUK or History of the Saddozais according to -which the words Pushto 

 (or PuKHTo) and Ptjshtun (or Pukhtun) are derived from Pusht or Pasht the name 

 of the place Afghana iirst fixed on as his residence on leaving Palestine. In the same 

 work a characteristically oriental derivation of the word Afghana is thus given. " The 

 original meaning of Afghanah is fighan, a Persian word which means complaint, 

 lamentation, because he (Kais) was a cause of lamentation to the devil, the jinns and 

 mankind. From the constant use of the word the vowel point Kasrah was dropped 

 after which the other letters could not be sounded without the aid of a vowel and 

 alif-i-wasl was placed before the gli and thus made Afghanah." And the term Pathan 

 is further derived' from batan or palan which in Arabic (cillij) signifies the keel 

 (Raverty says keelson) of a vessel, " without which it cannot sail, neither can the ship 

 of war sail along without the keel of battle." 



* The true Afghan descent of the posterity of the 2nd son Batan is more than 

 doubtful. It appears that Bibi Mato (or Matu) the daughter of Batan formed an illicit 

 connection with Shah Husein, (or Hiiss^n, called also Mast'ali) a Persian Prince of 

 Ghor and was made to marry him. The ofi'spring resulting was named Ghalzai that is 

 " the child of theft." She, however, also bore him a son Ibrahim Lodi from whom the 

 former Pathan rulers of Delhi sprung. This Shah Hussein was also by a fraud induced 

 to marry Bibi Mahi (or Mim) daughter of the Kagh or bard who managed his 

 marriage with Bibi Mato, and from her are descended the present Kaghzai, Bangash 

 and Sarwani Path&us, 



