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SAR—SAE
6ARTAP! KAUR—
A watercourse in Persian Baluchistan on Floyer’s route from Kashi to
Bint. It is struck at 19 miles from Pugunzi halting-place on the Karvan
stream, and about 8 miles after leaving the Tank (q.v.). The bed of the
watercourse is here about 100 yards wide and it is therefore not nearly so
large as the Tank and many others, but there is water in pools, driftwood
for fuel (rather scarce), and camel-grazing. It consequently makes a con
venient halting-place. On either side of the Sartapi are low shurs, back
ed by hills 800 feet high.
The road ascends the Sartapi for about 2 miles, and then ascends the
left bank to a high stony plateau, reaching the Gidich river at 14 miles.
The Sartapi appears to run first east and then south joining the Tank. At
all events it is part of the system of the Rapch river.
The name is said to be derived from “ Sard ab,” “ cold water.”—
(Floyer.)
SARUNADI—
A halting-place on the banks of a stream in the south-west of Persia,
Baluchistan. It is 26 miles west of Chahbar on the road to Jashk.—
(Kinneir.)
SARVISTAN or SARBISTAN— Lat. 29° 16'36". Long. 57° 49' 47". Elev.
3,300'.
A small village in Kirman, situated on the open plain, 93| miles south
east from Kirman on the Kirman-Bam-Bampur road. It bears the re
putation of being one of the most desolate and wind-stricken places in all
Persia.
The village, which was formerly of greater importance than now, is
sarrounded by a considerable amount of cultivated ground, which is well-
watered, but now presents a neglected appearance. It contains one
dilapidated caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). with a collection of low, thick walled huts built in
the form of a small square as a protection from th% severe storm-winds
which sweep the place. On the low ground below the serai are several
large, walled-in, well-stocked gardens and orchards, and behind the
largest is another collection of houses arranged in a similar square. A
large irrigation channel runs along the centre here, along which fine bid
and sanged trees flourish. There is small ancient masjid in a cemetery
on the high ground to the east above the gardens, with four old willow
trees hard by. Inside the shrine are old offerings, candlesticks, etc.,
like those seen at Ziarat-i-Shewib. In A.H. 1106, ot 1694 of our era,
Faqlr Shah Muhammad Ulla, returning from a pilgrimage to India by
way of Jalk and Dizak, collected subscriptions and built this shrine. He
subsequently went to Mahun and died there ; he is reported to have been
an enterprising and respected Hajl. Under a rocky ledge in a willow
grove below the cultivated ground is an old mill. There are no supplies
obtainable here. Fuel is scant; good water abundant; camel-grazing over
the plain and along the skirts of the hills. An office of the Persian Tele
graph Line is here .—(Brazier-Creagh ; 1894 ; Newcomen, 1905.)
SARVISTAN—
A tract of cultivation in the Shamil district (q.v.).