Book Title: Indian Antiquary Vol 59
Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications
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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[May, 1930
street," the place " built upon a narrow rock" and "in manifest danger" of "falling down topsie turvy all at once." In 1667 he found the old village forsaken and another town, the one visited by Scattergood, in process of erection “to the northward." Struys says (p. 339) that the village was formerly called “Jurgestan, now Jesegas," and Hedges remarks of “Yes-de-gas” (I, 209) that it had "a good Caravan Serai, built in a vast great ditch. Lo Bruyn (II, 3) has an illustration of the village of "Jesdagaes" as it appeared from the Karwånsardi in October 1704.
Coffala. Qafila, caravan, company of people.
Good bread. Thévenot remarks (Part II, 121): "The Land about Yez-de-Kast bears the best Corn in Persia, and indeed they make most excellent Bread there : the Inhabitants (as they say) mingling dry Pease with the Corn, which makes the Bread so good." Le Bruyn also praises the bread at "Jesdagaes” (II, 3-4): "We were presented, at the Caravanserai where we lodged, with little hot loaves of white bread, made in the manner of our country, for the Europeans who travel in these parts, and altogether as good as the small loaves of Amsterdam. This part of the country produces the best corn in all Persia, which the governor of Zjie-raas preserves for the King and court. This proceeding occasioned the Persian proverb, Zjie-raas for wine, Jesdagaes for bread, and Jes for women,' all which are in perfection in those places. Ovens are very numerous through the whole kingdom; and they are made in the form of wells, in each of which the paste is rolled into thin cakes, which are baked in a moment; and when they are taken out, others are immediately placed in the room. Large bread is likewise baked in these ovens, as among us; and they make biscuits at Ispahan, which are altogether as good as those in France." Gerah. Pers. kira, hire,' rent,' here used apparently for wages for servants..
Diary of 9, 10, 11 and 12 February 1707/8. Sagrestone. Shulgistân. See Fryer, op. cit., II, 317, n. 1. Cuscazer. Kashk-i-Zard. See Fryer, op. cit., II, 232, n. 1. Obadah. Abadeh. See Fryer, op. cit., II, 317, n. 3. Rader. Pers, råhdar, lit. master of the road, toll-collector, customs officer. Surma. Surme or Surmek, about 16 mi. SE. of Ab&deb. See Fryer, op. cit., II, 317, n. 4. Conacorra. Khân-i-Kharrê, or Khân-i-Khurreh. See Fryer, op. cit., II, 317, n. 5.
Diary of 13 and 14 February 1707/8. Conakergone. Khân-i-Kirgâni. See Fryer, II, 318, n. 3.
Mother of Solaman or Muskatt. The Madre Solyman and Mader Soliman of Rennell and D'Anville (Maps of Persia, 1831 and 1799). For “Muskatt " we should probably read Mushatt, i.e., the “Mushad " of Fryer (II, 318), identified by Crooke as Mashad-i-Murghåb, 12 miles S. of Khân-i Kirgâni. Fryer also found no inn in the village and lodged in a "Farmer's House."
La Bruyn, who made a detour from Shiraz in 1706 to see “Mazyt-Madre-Sulimoen or the mosque of Solomon's mother”( ? the mother of Shah Sulaiman, 1666-1694), gives an illustration, and thus describes it (II, 138) : " This structure is of stone and higher than all the rest. There is still to be seen a large apartment, which has no tomb in it, and there are some other buildings raised about it. At the distanoe of two musket shots from thence toward the north, upon the plain, there are also some ruins, and a large portal without any figure, and two leagues and a half from thence a wall, built with large stones round a mountain, on whose top there appears to have been some structure in antient times, but it is impossible to form any judgment of it by the little which is now left. These ruins are about a league from the village of Sefaboenia." See also Struys, p. 331.
Calenter. Pers. kalántar, the chief man in a town, mayor; tax-collector, clerk of the market. See Fryer, II, 204, n. 1, and III, 24.
Sevan. Siwand. See Fryer, II, 319, n. 1.
