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ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY OF KASMIR. 
[Extra No. 2, 
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE BB. —§ 86. 
The lists of KasmTr Parganas. 
The following table shows the names of Kasmir Parganas as con¬ 
tained in the lists of Abu-1-Fazl, Moorcroft, Yon Hiigel, Yigne and 
Major Bates. The list of the latter ( Gazetteer , p. 2) is the fullest and 
also indicates the division of the Parganas between Maraz and Kamraz 
as shown in the table. 
The arrangement of the Pargana names conforms to the topogra¬ 
phical order followed in Chapter IV. of this Memoir. The second 
column gives the Pargana names according to their present Kasmiri 
pronunciation, without regard to the often curiously distorted forms 
in which these names are presented by the earlier lists. The third 
column shows the authorities in whose lists each particular name is 
found. In the fourth column the Sanskrit name of the district has 
been indicated, whenever known, together with the text in which it 
first occurs. In the last column references have been given to the 
paragraphs of the Memoir specially dealing with the historical topo¬ 
graphy of the several districts. 
Besides the Parganas shown in the table, Abu-l-Fazl counts with 
Kasmir the Parganas of ‘ Maru Adwin ’ (Madivadvan), ‘ BanihaV 
(Ban a hal), and ‘ Dachhin Khawarah’ ( i.e ., Dachiin-Khovur, the valley 
on both banks of the Vitasta below Baramula). In the same way 
Moorcroft adds the Parganas of ‘ Durbid’ (i.e., Dvarbidi in the Vitasta 
Valley, comp. § 53), ‘ Karnao ’ and ‘ Tahirabad’ ; of the position of the 
last-named tract I am not certain. 
[The list of Kasmir Parganas given by P. Joseph Tieffenthalkr, 
Description de VInde, p. 77, is only a defective reproduction of Abu-1- 
Eazl’s list. Ritter, Asien, ii. pp. 1136 sq. , has endeavoured to elucidate 
