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KARDITAN— Lat. 28° 14' N. Long. 51° 51' E Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of Ears, on the main Bushire-Bandar’Ab
bas route between the stages of Shumbeh and Baghan, and 10|- miles south-
south-east of the former village. The village contains 30 mat huts and a
grove of date trees. A little wheat and barley are grown, but the supplies
available are insignificant; here is good and plentiful water, and kundr
bushes afford a supply of fuel. The camping-ground here is good, as is
also the grazing. Native information- says that a road leads from here to
Daiyir on the sea-coast, 32 miles distant .-—[Butcher 1888.)
KiRDINEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
The lower of two villages in the Dashti district of Ears, about 6 miles
south-east of Lavar, 1 mile east of the road between Bushire and Lar
situated near the foot of low, tumular, grassy hills.-— [Butcher, 1888.)
KlRIAN (1)—Lat. 28° 3' N. Long. 53° 37' E. Elev.
A village in the district of Bidshahr, Ears, the governor of which in 1882
was Lutf ’Ali Khan. The village, which once must have contained 2,000
inhabitants, had only three families at the time of Stack’s visit. It is on the
road from Lar to Firuzabad . There is a mud fort close to the village,
and two others in the plain about a mile to the east. One of the latter is the
mud fort (KaLh-i-Gileh) built when Karim Khan was reigning in
Shiraz (1780); it is a square earthwork with a side of 120 yards, and had a
tower every 13 yards. The other is the “ Fort of the Eire Well,” so called
from the discovery of naphtha in a well hard by ; it is a tower fort with a
wall on a mound. Forts and well are in ruins now.
Karian stands in the middle of three rocky hills, and these also are said
to have been fortified. The tradition of the place is that Shah Karan was
besieged here by 12,000 Mussalmans when the Arabs first invaded Persia.
While they were at their prayers, he sallied out and slew them all without
resistance.
In the Mussalman camp were 40 virgins, 37 of whom, in answer to their
prayer for deliverance, were swallowed up by the earth. The remaining
three fled in various directions.
The cave which sheltered one is called Ghar Bibi, or “Lady’s Cave” to this
day. The second died of exhaustion at a spot where the shrine called Blbl-
Darmandeh or •* Tired-out Lady” is, a famous place for childless wives. Hajat,
who had conquered Kir, hearing of the catastrophe, came to avenge his
brother, but could not take the fort until Shah Karan was betrayed by his
wife, who was a second Delilah and who had fallen in love with Hajat. Hajat
married and then killed her, as he had no wish to be betrayed. Being inform
ed that the way to find Shah Karan’s treasure was to make blood flow
down the hill-side, he proceeded to cut the throats of the inhabitants at the
top of the hill, and an old woman, when her turn came, revealed the secret,
by advising him to get the great store of wine from the vaults and pour that
down the hill-side ; the last jar of wine hid the door of the treasure house.
Karian was evidently once a flourishing and well-built place. Conical domes
of db-ambdrs rise among the ruined houses, testifying to a large water-supply
and a large population in former years. The neighbourhood is infestec|