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Dhiont: () bathing festival held chiefly on Sunday in river-worship, Multan Gr., p. 116; (ii) the bathing season, ib., p. 86.
Dhar = 4 kandaks = 23 khulas ; Marwat. Bannû S. R., 1899, p. xxxvii.
Dh3ra: a wallel enclosure at the corner of a field in which cattle are folded, Cf. dhon. Chenab Col. Gr., 1894, p. 68.
Dharrawa!: káldpani lands: so-called from the dharras or shares on which they are held. D. I. Khân S. R., 1872-79, p. 162.
Dhaular: a fort. Chenab Col. Gr., 1849, p. 25.
Dzaya : ) the old high bank of a river. Chenab Col. Gr., p. 3; (ii) the ledge of the Sandal Bar. Jhang S. R., p. 2.
(To be continuel.)
MISCELLANEA. EUROPEAN GRAVES AT KÅBOL.
rather confusedly engraved around the sides of
the stones, but runs as follows: The following passage from Masson's Narra- HERE LYES THE BODY OF JOSEPH tive of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afgha
HICKS, THE SON OF THOMAS nistan, and the Panjab (London, 1842), Vol II, HICKS AND ELDITH WHO DEPARTED p. 275, is probably unfamiliar to most
THIS LYFE THE ELEVENTH readers :
OF OCTOBER 1666.
The date carries us back to the commencement There are many head-stones in the Kabul of the reign of Aurangzeb (acc. 1658), when burial-grounds, which have an antiquity of Kabul was held by one of his lieutenants. An several centuries; many of these may have been old grave digger, Masson goes on to say, stated removed from their original sites, but they bear that 'the monument commemorated an officer inscriptions in antiquated Arabic and Persian of artillery, who stood so high in the estimation characters. I am not aware that stones with of the governor, that they were buried close each Cufio epitaphs exist, which, however, would not other on a contiguous mound. This, and the have been deemed strange, looking at the long | monument raised over the governor were pointed period the Caliphs dominated in these countries. out to me by the venerable depository of funeral
lore, and he assured me that the monument In the grave-yards of the bill Assa Mahi a placed over the Feringbí (European) or of neglected stone, distinguished by a sculptured
Mr. Hicks, had been removed, before his memory, mitre, denotes the place of rest of a Georgian
from its correct locality, and placed over the bishop, who it would seem died at Kabul three
grave of a Mábomedan; such transfers, however or four centuries since. In the Armenian ceme
indecorous or indelicate, being sometimes made. tery likewise a mitre on one of the stones prints On a tappa, or mound, some distance to the south, to the rank of the person deposited beneath it,
is another monument of the same form, but although tradition is silent as to him or his
of larger dimensions, which is also believed to age.
rest on the grave of a Feringbí. The inference is here drawn from the direction of the stone,
which is from east to west, no epitaph being But the more curious, and to Englishten the
present to render the fact certain.' most interesting grave-stone to be found about Kabul, is one commemorative of s
I wonder if these interesting monuments
still exist. Masson's notes of his trivels in countryman, and which bears & simple epitaph and record, in large legible Roman characters.
Afghánistên seventy years ago, partially preThe monument is small, and of marble, not of
served in Ariana Antiqua, show that the country the very frequent description of upright head
is full of ancient remains, Buddhist and other, stone, but of another form, which is also common
and that at that time no objection was raised to and which imitates the form of the raired sod
the presence of an Englishman, or to his over the grave. It is to be seen close to the
antiqnarian explorations. It is a pity that zjárat, or shrine of Sh&b Shebid, in the burial
Lord Auckland's blundering policy should have ground east of the gate of the same name, and i
resulted in the closing of the country. within some two hundred yards of it. It is i
VINCENT A. STI.
