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the arah-tdshi and the suhan-tashi;* the first are yellowish, the second, full-red of fine colour. The first make the more cheering wine, but it must be said that neither wine equals its reputation for cheer. High up in one of its glens, apes (jnaimun) are found, none below. Those people {i.e. Nurls) used to keep swine but they have given it up in our time.2
Another tuman of Lamghan is Kunar-with-Nur-gal. It lies somewhat out-of-the-way, remote from the Lamghanat, with its borders in amongst the Kafir lands ; on these accounts its people give in tribute rather little of what they have. The Chaghansarai water enters it from the north-east, passes on into the buluk of Kama, there joins the Baran-water and with that flows east.
Mir Sayyid 'All Hamadani? God's mercy on him ! coming here as he journeyed, died 2 miles (1 shar'i) above Kunar. His disciples carried his body to Khutlan. A shrine was erected at the honoured place of his death, of which I made the circuit when I came and took Chaghan-saral in 920 AH.4
The orange, citron and coriander5 abound in this tuman. Strong wines are brought down into it from Kafiristan.
A strange thing is told there, one seeming impossible, but one told to us again and.again. All through the hill-country above Multa-kundl, viz. in Kunar, Nur-gal, Bajaur, Sawad and
(Author's note to Multa-kundl.) As Multa-kundl is known the lower part of the tuman of Kiinar-with-Nur-gal ; what is below (i.e. on the river) belongs to the valley of Nur and to Atar.6
1 Appendix G, On the names of two Nun wines.
2 This practice Babur viewed with disgust, the hog beingan impure animal according to Muhammadan Law (Erskine).
3 The Khazlnatii'l-asfiyd (ii, 293) explains how it came about that this saint, one honoured in Kashmir, was buried in Khutlan. He died in Hazara (Pakli) and there the Pakli Sultan wished to have him buried, but his disciples, for some unspecified reason, wished to bury him in Khutlan. In order to decide the matter they invited the Sultan to remove the bier with the corpse upon it. It could not be stirred from its placeC When, however a single one of the disciples tried to move it, he alone was able to lift it, and to bear it away on his head. Hence the burial in Khutlan. The death occurred in 786 ah. (1384 ad. ). A point of interest in this legend is that, like the one to follow, concerning dead women, it shews belief in the living activities of the dead.
* The MSS. vary between 920 and 925 AH. neither date seems correct. As the annals of 925 ah. begin in Muharram, with Babur to the east of Bajaur, we surmise that the Chaghan -sarai affair may have occurred on his way thither, and at the end W 924 AH.
s ka-ranj, coriandrum sativum. some 20-24 m. north of Jalalabad. The name Multa-kundl may refer to the "-""-kundi range, or mean Lower district, or mean Below Kundi. See Biddulph's ■Khowari Dialect s.n under; K.'s Notes p. 108 and Diet. s.n. kund; Masson, i, 209.
