Indian Antiquary Vol 59

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 314

THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
May, 1930
3 [March). Sett out for Jehun, 7 farsangs, very bad stoney way. About 8 at night arrived at Tankadalone, 5 farsangs, a good caravensaroy with a Tank in the middle built in form of a cross within side. Here lay till 4 in the morning; then sett out for Jehun, the other 2 farsange. Arrived about 6 in the morning the 4th March. This is a good caraven. saroy tho small; a great distance from any village.
My Expences here, vizt. : 41 mds. barley at 15 goz. per md. .. 11 mds.straw at 5 goz. per md. .. .. .. .. .. .. 5. 5. wood 8 goz.; bread 12 goz.; Gerah 4 shas. .. .. .. .. .. 6, 0.
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18. 3. 18. 3. 4th March. About 3 afternoon sett out for Coverstone, 7 farsangy, stoney way; about 3 farsangs came to a Caravensaroy called Goos Basargoon. Coverstone is a small good Caravensaroy, & very good village just by it, where may have all things eatable.
[Expenses]. 41 [mds.) barley at 1 mams. per md.
.. .. .. .. .. 9. 0. 10 mds.straw at 8 goz. per md.
.. .. .. .. .. 8. 0. 2 fowles .. .. .. .. ..
.. . .. 4. 0. wood 2 shas. ; bread 12 goz. ..
. .. . 3. 2. Gerah 4 shas.
.. 4. 0.
28. 2. 28. 2. March 5th. About 3 afternoon gett out for Getchee, 6 farsange. Half way is a bridge and some water that you must pass over. About 7 at night arrived at our Mansell.
[Expenses). 3 mds. barley at 2 shas. per md. .. .. .. .. .. . 6. 0. 10 mds. straw at 8 goz. per md.
.. .. .. 8. 0. wood 18 goz.; fowle 2 shas... Butter 4 shas.; Gerah 4 shas.
.. .. .. 8. 0.
• 25. 6. 25. 6. Bth March. Sett out for Bendaly, 4 farsangs, a little hilly way.
7th March. In the morning, about 9 in the morning, arrived at Gombroon with the Cheife, Mr. John Eaton Dodsworth, Mr. Dennis, Mr. Beavis and Batson who all came out a little way to meet me.
NOTES.
Diary of 5 February 1707/8. Spahaun, i.e., Isfahan, was the capital of Persia at that period. Mayer. Mayar, 25 miles S.S.E. of Isfahan. See Fryer, ed. Crooke, II, 238 and f.n.
Farsangs. Pers. farsang ; Ar. farsakh ; Gr. parasang; a measure of distance variously computed at from about 31 to 4 miles. Scattergood seems to have reckoned it at about 31 miles.
Yerohan hills. The Urohini Pass, lit, the "Pass of the Stairway," in the range of hills to the south of Isfahan. See Fryer, op. cit., II, 237 : Curzon's Persia, II, 61.
Caravanseroy. Kdrwdnsarat, a wayside inn. Tavernier, Persian Travels, p. 245, also found, as early as 1868, a "very good Inn" at "Mahiar," and Le Bruyn, who was there in October 1704 and December 1706, says; Travels, II, 2-3, 140-41, that the fine stone building was erected by Shah Sulaiman and that the place, of which he has two illustrations was more like a palace than'a house of entertainment for travellers.