ÿþ<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <meta name="Author" content="Vassil Karloukovski"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> <title>Hudud al-'Alam - 49</title> </head> <body> <font face="Palatino Linotype"> <b><font size=+1>Hudud al-'Alam, The Regions of the World</font></b> <br><b>V. Minorsky</b> <br>&nbsp; </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><b>§ 49. Discourse on the Sar+r Country and its Towns</b> </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">East and south of it are the borders of Armenia; west of it, the Rkm limits; north of it, the Aln country. This is an extremely pleasant country consisting of mountains and plains. It is reported that in its mountains live flies, each as big as a partridge (<i>chand kabk+</i>). Every now and then (<i>har chand gh+</i>) this king sends to the place where the flies dwell large quantities of carrion of slaughtered or dead cattle and of game (<i>shikr+-h</i>) to be thrown there for their nourishment, for if they grow hungry, they come and devour every man (<i>mardum</i>) and animal <br>38 b <br>| whom they may meet. </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">1. THE KING'S CASTLE (<i>Qal'a-yi malik</i>) is an extremely huge (<i>sakht 'az</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">+m</i>) castle on the summit of a mountain. The seat (<i>nishast</i>) of the King is in that fort, and he is said to possess an extremely grand throne (<i>takht+ sakht 'az</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">+m</i>) of red gold. </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">2. KHANDN (Khaydn ?) is the town serving as a residence (<i>nishast</i>) for the generals (<i>siph-slrn</i>) of that king. </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">3. R.BKH.S (R.nj.s?), M.SQ.T</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">, two very prosperous towns. </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">From both these countries (<i>nh</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">#</font><font face="Palatino Linotype">iyat</i>) <a href="#2.">[2]</a> numerous slaves are brought to the Islamic countries. <br>&nbsp; </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype"><a NAME="2."></a><font size=-1><b>2. </b><i>i.e.</i>, the Aln and the Sar+r.</font> <br>&nbsp; </font> <p><font face="Palatino Linotype">[<a href="hud_48_c.html">Previous</a>] [<a href="hud_49_c.html">Next</a>] <br>[<a href="index.html">Back to Index</a>] </font> </body> </html>