'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎137r] (278/988)

MUL—MUM
756;
MULLA VARDI— Lat. Long. ; Elev. 1,025'.
A hamlet in the Bastak district of Luristan, 14^ miles from the town of
that name, on the road to Furg.
It consists of 7 houses surrounded by large date plantations, and has
a scanty supply of water from a well.
MU MI AW AND—
Name of a tribe in Luristan
MUMUNAI—
Banking calls this Mumai or Mumiai.
A small village oh the road from Kirmanshah to Deh Bala, about 43
miles south-west of Kirmansha. Population 80. Water from one qanat.
Supplies scarce, fielongs to the Vakil Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator. -ud-Daulah— (Ranking, 1900.)
MUMUNAI— Lat. 33° 53' N. ; Long. 460 53' E. ; Elev. 4,550'.
A village in the Pusht-i-Kuh division of Luristan, just beyond the
Kirmanshah border, and 48 miles south-west of Kirmanshah town on the
road to Deh Bala. The village consists of some 50 huts, in the centre of a
small valley, and is surrounded by a small orchard and patches of culti
vation. A shallow pond lies close by, with numerous springs bubbling up
through the gravelly bottom.— (Maunsell, August 1888.)
(?;) The course of the Mud River, known in its upper reaches successively
as the Waz and Kara Aghach, was for long unmapped, but surveys by
Lieutenant Crookshank, R.E., in 1900-02 and by Lieutenant M ilson in
1911, covering practically the whole of its course, now enable it to be des
cribed with accuracy. The existence of up-to-date degree sheets of this part
of the country renders any detailed narrative of its course superfluous.
It is sufficient to say that it rises in ths mountains north of Khan-I-Zmian
at a place called Bun Rud, it then flows south-south-east past Aiur to Kavar,
its waters being utilized for irrigation at many points from Khan-i-Zinian
to Pas-i-Rudak in the Dizgah plain. It enters the Kavar plain by a defile,
in which an ancient stone dam built for irrigation purposes exists, thence
it flows down the Kavar-Khafr valley to Taduan, where it cuts through the
end of the Kuh-i-Safid by a remarkable gorge and, after a circuitous course
amongst the mountains of the Simakan district, emerges to the desolate
Manyun valley (20 miles west of Jahrum) where it is joined by the lasa
stream (practically dry in summer), by the Maimand stream, and, a little
further down, by a fresh water river rising west of the deserted hill fort of
Galat-i-Zangibar, and flowing past the walled village of Madkhun in a
narrow gorge. It obtains access to the Qlr-o-Karzin plain, which it waters
very completely, by a very narrow and precipitous gorge through the moun
tains, part of which is quite impassable even on foot. For some way after
this it can be followed on horse or foot, through the plains of Afzar and
Laghar-o-Maku, through the Tang-i-Shahriyaii to Kupkab, near Gird
Bisheh, where the valley is about 3 miles broad.
Its course now becomes impassable for some miles until it emerges on
to the Dizgah plain, where it is joined by—