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of Dalan. To the south of the serai, on the rocky cliffs about 100 feet
high, stands a small watch tower. Supplies scanty from the village {c[. v.).
— [Wilson and Crnickshank, 1907.)
PA-ASTAN— Lat. Long. ; Elev. 3,675'.
A valley in the Pish Kuh of Luristan, 14 ^ miles south-west of the cross
ing of the Madian river, on the road from Khurramabad to Deh Bala. It
is about -2 miles broad, and stretches away to the north-west; there is abund
ant water and a large area of cultivation. Large flocks of sheep and
goats; fuel scanty in the vicinity, but the gorge of the Tarkhan pass, 1
mile to the south, contains a quantity of small willow trees. Supplies
in summer.— [ Burton , September 189 /.)
PATAK— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village giving its name to a plain in Khuzistan, crossed by the road
from Behbehan to Shushtar.— [deBode.)
PA-I-TAQ—Lat. 34° 25' 12" ; Long. 46° 12' 39" ; Elev.
A village near the foot of the pass called Taq-i-Girreh, near Karind in
the Kirmanshah district. The village numbers about 20 families of Kurds,
miserably poor. In the summer they lie in huts made of reeds and branches
of trees ; in the winter, in houses of rough, unhewn stone, cemented with
mud It lies at the end of the Bishaveh plain on the right bank of a fresh
water torrent called Ab-i-Darreh, and has a rough and ready cdrardnserav,
there is a new one building. Its name either signifies “ the foot of the
throne, ” or “ the lower station. ” Supplies scarce—(L au^an.)
PAUCH ARIL—Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place in Eastern Khuzistan, eight stages east of Shushtai on
the road to Isfahan.— [Mackenzie.)
PEIILYAN— Lat. 30° 36'; Long. 52° 27'; Elev.
A village, a dependency of Asupas, f of a mile west of the road from
that place to tjjan.— [Grahame, 1908.)
PEHVANDEH or PEHUINDEH—Lat. 32° 12' N.; Long. 48° 4' E. ; Elev.
A village in northern ^Arabistan on the Shushtar-Dizful road, 16 miles
north-west of Shushtar. The land in its neighbourhood is the property of
Muhammad Javad Khan, Muntazam-ud-Dauleh, a Bakhtiari Khan. It is
composed of 60 mud huts of Haft Lang Bakhtiarls. There is a small fort,
and 200 yards to the north are a few knar trees, while 6.00 yards to the south,
on the road, is a built-over well of fresh water. In the hot weather Arabs
under Shaikh Farhan Asad of the Kathir come here for pasturage, and sink
shallow wells in a dry water-course beside the village.
PERSEPOLIS or TAKHT-I-JAMSHlD— Lat. 29 d 58' N.; Long. 52°
54' E.; Elev. 5,500'.
Situated on the plain of Marvdasht, some 40 miles north-east of Shiraz,
and not far from where the river Pulvar flows into the Kur. The central
structure is a large terrace with its east side resting on the Kuh-i-Rahmat.
The other three sides are formed by a retaining wall, varying in height from
14 to 41 feet ; and on the west side a magnificent double stair leads to the
top. On this terrace stand and lie the ruins of a number of colossal buildings