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these names, which is thus mentioned in conjunction with Manhâbari might possibly be intended for Nirun, and the other two for Nirunkot, as the alterations in the original Arabic characters required for these two readings are very slight. But there was cer- tainly a place of somewhat similar name in Mekrân, as Bilâduri records that Kizbun in Mekrân submitted to Muhammad Kâsim on his march against Debâl. Comparing this name with Ibn Haukal's Kannazbur,* and Edrisi's Firabuz, I think it probable that they may be intended for Panjgur, as suggested by M. Reinaud. The 14 days' journey would agree very well with the position of this place.

Jarak.

The little town of Jarak is situated on an eminence overhanging the western bank of the Indus, about midway between Haidarâbâd and Thatha. Jarak is the present boundary between Vichalo, or Middle Sindh, and Lár, or Lower Sindh, which latter I have been obliged to extend to Haidarâbâd, so as to include the Patala of the Greeks and the Pitasilu of the Chinese pilgrim, within the limits of the ancient Delta. This is perhaps the same place as Khor, or Alkhor, a small but populous town, which Edrisi places between Manhâbari and Firabuz, that is, be- tween Thatha and Nirunkot. Three miles below Jarak there is another low hill covered with ruins,

  • Prof. Dowson's edition of Sir Henry Elliot's Hist. of India, i. 40.

Ibn Haukal: Kannazbur. At page 29 he gives Istakhri's name as Kannazbûn, which Mordtmann reads Firiun. The most probable ex- planation of these differences is some confusion in the Arabic characters between the name of Nirun and that of the capital of Mekrân.

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