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TABARKAND— Lat. 31° 87' O v , Long. 60° 38' 0" ; Elev. 3,4<)0'— John.
A pass on the border of Persian Seistan, about 40 miles from Neb, on the
road to Lash in Afghanistan. It is so called because Nadir Shah caused
it to be enlarged, to facilitate the transport of his gurs. The pass is, how*
ever, narrow and tortuous, and the ascent from the plain of Nehbandan
abrupt; but as the road has been well traced aud cut in zigzags, it does
not present any serious difficulty.— {Khanikoff, St. John).
TAGHARI, or TAG HAZY and DEH PIRAN -
A village on the Adimi Canal. It contains about a hundred families and
possesses 10 ploughs of cultivable land which yields 360 Jcharwars of grain
(§ wheat and £ barley). The Government revenue amounts to 120 khar-
toars per annum.— [Mania Bakhsh.)
TAKHTAPUL—
A ruined bridge some four miles south-south-east of (Pulgi) thus
described by Yate. It looked like a low mound in the distance, but on
approaching it turned to be the remains of a low bridge with two arches,
with abutments on either side, all of burnt brick, standing high and dry in
the plain, the nearest branch of the river being some miles to the east. The
guides declared it was built by Shah Gushtasp (B. C. 5*°) on the road
connecting Karkun or Karkhushah and Peshawaran.—-(C. £>. Yate.)
TAKHT-I-SHAH —
A place about seven miles north-east of Pulgi in the Naizar.
After starting from Pulgi about three miles out we got into the reed-bed
or Naizar, and after working through that for some distance, we got on
to a tract of tamarisk-covered land standing some six or eight feet higher
than the level of the reed-beds, and keeping along this past various hamlets
of Persian maldars or cattle graziers, we came to a more open plain of here
and there hard clay, and in other places soft saline earth with low mounds
scattered about, and this we were told was Takht-i-Shah. On examination
all the mounds turned out to be full of burnt bricks of the large square
pattern usually found in ancient ruins, and apparently the place was thickly
populated in former days. These ruins are now known by the name of
Chahar Shahr.
Takht-i-Shah I found to be the most northern possession of Persia in
this direction. Away to the east on the opposite side of the water I could
see other reed-huts, which I was told belonged to Afghans, and on this
side a mile and a half or two miles to the north on a spit of dry land between
two inundated reed-beds at a place called Shishangi I also found an Afghan
grazier settlement. The Afghan Government, it w r as said, took no reve
nue from them there, but neither did the Persian Government, and, in
fact, I gathered there was a considerable wandering population about here
who paid no taxes to either side. —(C. E. Yate, 1894.)
TARAKU (canal).—
Name of an old canal that used to water the whole district round
Haozdar, until the dam on the Helmand from whence the water came was
destroyed by fchah Ruhh, son of Timur. As the take-off place is in Afghan
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