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systems of writing employed by the different Record of the Meteorological Observations and Altitudes
or the March from the Indus to the Tigris, by HENRY nationalities of India at large from Sindh to
WALTER BELLEW, C.S.I., Surgeon, Bengal Staff dorps, &c. Ceylon, and spreading over Burmah, till the (London: Trübner & Co. 1874.) Indian Pali meets Chinese alphabets on their own A book of travels, through a country, the details Boil in Annam."
of whose geography are but little known to the The following is a table of the Sassanian general reader, without either a map or an index, is monarchs, with the dates of their several acces almost a phenomenon in the present or any other sions, revised from the latest authoritiest:
age, and 's most discouraging to peruse. Here
Accession. is a work, almost a pure and simple narrative of 1. Ardeshir (Artahshatr) Babekân A.D. 226 travel from place to place, which no one need 2. Shkpur (Shahpohr) I. his son ............. 240
attempt to read intelligibly without the aid of a Hormazd I. S .........
271 good Map of Persia and Baluchistan, yet pub4. Varahran (Bahram) I.....
272 lished without so essential an accompaniment. 5. Varahrán II.............
275 The author was selected to accompany Major6. Varahrån III. Segân Shah)|| ......... 292 General F. R. (now Sir Richard) Pollock on his 7. Nerschi (Napons) .......................... 292 political mission to Sistân at the close of 1871. 8. Hormazd II................................... 301 In Sistån the mission joined Sir Frederick Gold. 9. Shâpur II. (Zu'laktáf)..................... 309 smid's, and they proceeded together to the Persian 10. Ardeshir (Artashatr) II. (Jamil) ......... 380 capital, whence Dr. Bellew returned to India with 11. Shâbpar III. ..........
384 the camp and establishment. He carefully avoids 12. Varahrân IV. (Kerman Shah)*............ 386 any allusion to the politics of the countries visited, 13. Yezdejird (Izdakarti) I. (Bazah-kdr) ... and contincs himself strictly to the narrative of 14. Varahrån V. (Gór) ........................... 417 the journey from Shikarpur, by Jacobábad and the 15. Yezdejird IT. (Sipdh-dost) .................. 483 Miloh Pass to Kalát, and thence by the Nishp& 16. Hormazd III. his younger son............ pass, the Peshin valley, and the Barghanah pass to 17. Firoz (Firachi),t eldest son of Yezde- Kandahar; then to Ballakban on the Helmand
jird II. ......................................... 459 Bost, and through the Garmsel or 'hot tract' from 18. Vagharsh (Bahas) ............................ 486 Hazarjuft to Rodbar. Sixteen miles beyond 19. Kobåd (Koht, Kaßáðns), Nel-rdi,' wise").. 490 | Radbar the travellers came to Kala Mader 20. Khusru I. (Naushirwan) ..................530-1 Pådshah, or' foot of the King's mother.' "The 21. Hormazd IV. (Túrk-Zddaht)............... 578 fort itself is in fair preservation, and appears to 22. Khusro II. (Parviz).................. 590 be of much more recent date than the ruins that 23. Kobåd Shiruiah (Al ghashim) ......... 628 surround it. It is said to have been the residence 24. Ardeshir III. .................
.628 of the niother of Kai Khusrau. At about 8 or 10 25. Shahr-yêr (Khorham, Zapsáposl) ...... 629 miles beyond it are the extensive ruins of KAIKO26. Parân-dukht (dr. of Khusra Parviz)T... 630 BAD, a city named after its founder, the first of the 27. Khusra........................................
Käyênf sovereigns, and subsequently said to have 28. Azarmi-dukht (dr. of Khusru)......... 631-2 been the capital of Kai Khusrau. Two tall dila29. Hormazd .................
pidated towers, at some 300 yards apart, are 30. Yezdejird III. son of Shahr-yâr
pointed out as the site of his palace, and the 16th June 632 to, 652
fenestered curtain walls projecting from them
towards each other give an outline of the palatial FROM THE INDUS TO THE TIGRIS, a Narrative of a Jour. court. These ruins are all of raw brick, and wear ney through the Countries of Balochistan, Afghanistan,
a very ancient look, and provo tho astonishing Khorasan and Iran in 1872, together with a Synoptical Grammar and Vocabulary of the Brahoe Language, and a durability of the material." Does the writer not
See also J. As. Soc. Ben. 1867, 6 Feb. and Jour. R. Asiat. 1866, p. 166; Tabari, tun. II. pp. 127, 129 Mas'. As. Soc. N. S. vol. V. p. 491.
audi, t. II. p. 195; Mohl's Shah Namah, t. V. p. 84; De + See Essai d'une Histoire de la Dynastie des Sassanides Sacy, p. 342; Malcolm's Persia, vol. I. p. 183. He lost his by M. K. Patlanian ; translated from the original Bossinn life in war with the II 1 Atals h or White Hon. text by M. Evariste Prud'homme, Jour. Asiat. Fev.-Mars Ma'audi, t. II. pp. 211, 213, 219, 262; Tabari, t. II. pp. 1866.
252, 268; Mohl's Shah Namah, t. V. p. 698; Malcolm I Tabari, vol. II. p. 5; and Jour. Asiat. vol. VII. 1839,
Persia, vol. I. p. 154; Jour. Asiat. 1800, p. 187. p. 28.
& The iniquitous." Maa'audi calls him Al Batal, 'the hero,' II. p. 166, No. Moe'audí, t. II. p. 233, Tahari, t. II. p. 318. 13. The Arabic nickname is Al them, the Sinner.'
I Widow of Shahr-yar. Tabari records in order --Parap. |Agathias, IV. 25.
dukht (1 year and 4 months); Khusehenradd (1 month); Morier, Travels in Persia (1812), P. 87, 257; Flandin, Azarni dukht (6 months); Kesra son of Mihr.'Haals; La Perse, vol. II. p. 270, and pls. 45, 52; Thomas, Sas. Khorzad-Khusra; Firos; Ferruksad Khuard, and Yezdejird, sanian Inscriptions, p. 102.
II. 319). • Gottwaldt's Hamza Isfahani (St. Petersburg, 1846), p. • The Armenian chronicles inake Yezdejird the son of 39.
Kobhd and grandson of Khusra.-Bépéos, in Jouy. Asiat. + Moyse de Kaghank, 1. I. c. 1.; M. Patkanian, Jour. 1866, p. 227.
