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taineers '; and the Kint?, the Kâvali, the Sôfti, the Rûman (Arûmâyak), and the white-clothed Karmak: then attain sovereignty in my countries of Iran, and their will and pleasure will become current in the world. 50. The sovereignty will come from those leathern-belted ones* and Arabs (Tâzigân) and Ramans to them, and they will be so misgoverning that when they kill a righteous man who is virtuous and a fly, it is all one in their eyes. 51. And the security, fame, and prosperity, the country and families, the wealth and handiwork, the streams, rivers, and springs of Iran, and of those of the good religion, come to those non-Iranians; and the army and standards of the frontiers come to them, and a rule with a craving for wrath advances in the world. 52. And their eyes of avarice are not sated with wealth, and they form hoards of the world's wealth, and conceal them underground; and through wickedness they commit sodomy, hold much intercourse with menstruous women, and practise many unnatural lusts.
of some country probably in Turkistân, as Argâsp, the opponent of Vistâsp, is called lord or king of Khyên' in the Yâdkâr-i Zarîrân (see also Gôs Yt. 30, 31, Ashi Yt. 50, 51, Zamyâd Yt. 87).
Or, as the mountain-holding Khůdarak.' Darmesteter suggests that Khûdarak may be an 'inhabitant of Khazar.
? Probably the people of Samarkand, which place was formerly called K în according to a passage in some MSS. of Tabari's Chronicle, quoted in Ouseley's Oriental Geography, p. 298. See also Bund. XII, 22.
3 The Kâbulî and Byzantine Rûman are plain enough ; not so the Saftî and Karmak (Kalmak or Krimak).
That is, the Tûrks, as appears more clearly from Chap. III, 8, 9. The Arabs are mentioned here, incidently, for the first time, and again in Chap. III, 9, 51.
Literally, - both are one.'
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