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falls into the sea near Pattan Som-natb, not the classical river, the tri¬ 
butary of the Ghag-ghar, described farther on, the sacred river of the 
Brahmans. 
In another place he states, that, “ from Bazanah [ also written 
Ajfy and Ajfp in different MSS.] where roads branch off to the west, is 
Multan, distant fifty farsangs, and to Bhati [ —also written 
165 The place called “Bhati” above, is what Elliot at page 79 calls “Bania” 
where the country is “ a marine strand and whatever may be its correct name, 
whether Bazanah, as Bu-Rihan writes it, be the capital of Guzarat or not (but Anhal- 
Warah ivas its ancient capital), all these places, undoubtedly, lay near the sea coast, 
between the mouth of the Mihran of Sind and Kathiawar, and this evidently was 
Elliot’s idea when writing about it as “ the capital of Gnzerat.” Notwithstanding 
this, from the footnote 9, page 58, of the volume referred to, written by the Editor, 
Mr. Dowson, it appears that Elliot considered it, “ one of the most interesting 
places in the North-Western Provinces [sic] to identify [this “marine strand” in 
the North-Western Provinces!] from the pages of Biruni.” He thought it to be 
represented by the modern Nanuar, and entered into details in support of this view, 
but he was unable to account for its being called the capital of Gnzerat.” 
Then the Editor tells us, that General Cunningham takes another view, and 
says : “ I have identified Guzerat, with Bairdt , or the ancient Matsya. * * * Firishta 
[i. e. y “Briggs?”] gives these two names as Kairdt and Ndrdin, which he says, 
were two hilly tracts, overrun by Mahmud of Ghazni. Now Guzerat and Kairdt are 
only slight corruptions of Bairdt, when written in Persian characters ; and Ndrdin 
and Nardna are still slighter alterations of Ndrdyana, which is the name of a town 
to the north-east of Bairdt .” See also pages 394, 5, and 6 of Elliot’s Yol. I. 
Now let us see how “ Guzerat ” and “ Kairdt ” look so much like “ Bairdt ” 
in Persian characters :—and how very much alike are “Ndr¬ 
din” “ Nardna ” and “ Ndrdyana ” :—There is not very 
much similarity here, I think : at least, I cannot discover it. The word, however, is 
Bazanah. 
But alas for these “ satisfactory ” identifications ! The names given by Firishtah 
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in his Persian text are <^< j 9 J yp "Nur and Kirat, which refer to two darahs north 
of Jalal-abad and the river of Kabul, in the Kafiristan, no less than eleven degrees 
farther north ! The mistake respecting them I pointed out in my “ Translation of 
the Tabakat-i-Nasiri,” page 77 ; and I have also given an account of Amir Mahmud’s 
expedition to those darahs in my Notes on Afghanistan,” pages 134 and 135, 
from the author from whom Firishtah derived the information, and who wrote in 
the time of Amir Mahmud’s grandson, Sultan Farrukli-Zad. See also Elliot, vol. I, 
page 47, where the same darahs of Nur and Kirat, written “ NuroJcirdt,” as one word, 
are mentioned along with Lamghan north of Jalal-abad and the river of Kabul. 
According to Bu-Rihan, who mentioned this so called “ Nurokirat” above refer¬ 
red to, this Bazanah is 60 farsangs = 180 miles from Anhal-Warah, and we know 
where that is, and it is a long way from La m (th an, and from Bairdt too. Aror, the 
ancient capital of Sind, also cannot be referred to here, because this Bhati is but 
20 farsangs =60 miles, north of Mansuriyah, and SO farsangs =90 miles from Loha- 
rani, at the mouth of the Mihran of Sind ; and it is said that this place—Aro, Ador, 
