RASHI′DU-D DI′N, FROM AL BI′RU′NI′.
Chandráha (Chinab), twelve; thence to the Jailam, on the west of the Báyat,[1] eighteen; thence to Waihind, capital of Kandahár, west of the Sind, which the Moghals call Karájáng, twenty ; thence to Parsháwar, fourteen; thence to Dambúr,[2] fifteen; thence to Kábul, twelve; thence to Ghaznin, seventeen.
Kashmír[3] is a valley surrounded by lofty inaccessible hills and broad deserts; on the east and south it is bordered by Hind; on the west by kings, of whom the nearest are Takúr Shah, then Shaknan Sháh, and Wakhán[4] Shah, extending to the frontiers of Badakhshan; on the north, and partly on the east; by the Turks of Chín and Tibet.
From the mountain of Bhútesar to Kashmír, across the country of Tibet, is nearly 300 parasangs. The people of Kashmír do not ride on quadrupeds, but are carried on men's shoulders in a Katút, which resembles a throne. The servants of the Government are always on the alert, and watch the passes and strongholds of the country. They do not allow strangers to enter the country, except by ones and twos. This prohibition extends even to Jews and Hindús, how then can any one else gain admittance? The principal entrance is at Bíráhán,[5] half way between the Sind and Jailam. From that place to the bridge, at the confluence with the Jailam
- ↑ [This is no doubt the Beyah. Reinaud had “Beyut,” and Elliot “Behat.” A. has either “Máyat” or “Bayát,” C. has “Máyat,” and D. “Má-oayat.”
- ↑ [“Dinbour,” Reinaud. “Dinur,” Elliot.
in A. and B. 
in C.
- ↑ Mention of Kashmír occurs in another part of the work, which contains little that is not noticed here. The author adds that in Kashmír there is a city called Dárabarka, in which there are 3,600,000 inhabitants, and that it was built 2,000 years ago. That the Valley was formerly twelve hundred years under water; when, at the entreaties of Casip [Kasyapa], the waters found their way to the sea, and the valley became habitable.
- ↑ [These names according to Reinaud and Elliot are “Bilor, Shaknán, and Dúkhan.” MSS. A. and B. make the first distinctly “Tákúr,” but D. has “Billúr.” B. makes the second “Shakbán.” The third is
in A. and B., 
in C. and in D. See Jaubert's Edrisi, pp. 479, 483, 490.]
- ↑ [“Berberhan,” Reinaud; “Barbhán,” Elliot. A. and B. have
or . C. 
. “Babar-khána, or ‘tiger's house,’ the name of the land on the north of the ancient Taxila, where Buddha gave his head to the starving tiger. It is on the high road to Kashmír.”—Cunningham.]
