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KAH—KAI
Kahflnak belongs to the Bakhtiari Khans and to Agha ’All MustaufL
of Dizful. Rice, kunjid, mash, wheat, barley, beans, and cotton are cul
tivated on the village lands which are irrigated from the Ab-i-Kahunak.
A canal runs out of the stream a few hundred yards above the village and
beyond Kahunak, reaches a group of hamlets called Gumar, which also it
serves. There is a fair supply of water at all seasons of the year, but it is
rather brackish. No transport is procurable at Kahunak, except about 50
donkeys. Cattle number about 150 sheep, and goats about 60.
There are four shrines here—the imdmzddeh of Bibi-Qulkhan, close to
the caravanserai, a kadamgdh of Hazrat ’Abbas and another of the Imam-
i-Riza, both on the south side of the village and close to it; and, lastly, a
kadamgdh, called Amir Vazir, | of a mile from the village in the direction
of Shushtar. These shrines are visited by the surrounding Arabs, as well
as by Dizful is and Shushtaris.
The revenue of Kahunak is paid into the Dizful treasury. With that of
Gumar, it amounts to 1,000 tumdns per annum for crops, except rice,
being assessed, it is said, at the rate of 2 tumdns per plough. Half-pro-
duce in kind is paid on account of rice cultivation. The annual cash
assessment of Kahunak, separately, is now (1907) reported to be 318 tumdns.
A flour mill, belonging to the village, which charges customers 1 bran and
1 Dizfuli man of flour for every 12 Dizfull man ground, is assessed to
revenue at 500 tumdns a year .—{Persian Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
KlHCNAK (AB-I)—
A stream in Northern ’Arabistan which, in the spring, brings down a
considerable body of water from the melting snows, but is dry in summer.
It rises in the mountains in Southern Luristan and flows through the plain,
about 10 miles east of Dizful, in several broad channels, which form the
western boundary, to the plain of Ab-i-Bid {vide this Gazetteer, Sar-i-
Bisheh). These merge into one deep channel on passing through a low
range of hills, which divides the plains of Kahunak and Ab-i-Bid, A few
miles later it flows past Kahunak, where the road from Shushtar to Dizful
crosses it by a brick bridge and, after a farther course of some 18 miles
in a south-westerly direction, it flows into the Ab-i-Diz, about 42 miles (by
river) south of Dizful.— {Arhuthnot, 1905.)
KAHtJNAK (River), vide AB-I-DIZ.
KAHVARUKH, see QEHFARUKH.
KAlAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A hamlet of 15 houses of Dinaruni Bakhtlaris at the foot of the Kaleh
Sard, mountain, 4 miles west of Deh-i-Diz on the road ftom Isfahan to
’Arabistan ; rocky cliffs rise steeply behind to the west: to the south is a
stony slope covered with oak, running down to the foot of Dehadari
mountain. Corn is grown in small quantities, and the village is deserted
from May to September.— {Burton, 1903.)
KAIANJ— Lat. Long. Elev.
A plain in which are many villages and the town of Hisar in Laristan.—*
{Jones).