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3 Sooree, and thnt their dynasty was allowed to be ot very great antiquity
4 «ven in the eleventh century. Their prindpal cities seem to -^ve
5 been Ghore, i* eerooz Coh, and perliapi> iiaurneeaii. *
6 There are different accounts of the religion of the Afghaun^ of
7 Gtea Some aay the^ wcfe oooTertadto the Mahomedan &ith soon
8 tAoi the prophet ; while otli» iniintim Aitt 'duy wmn idolaten in
9 <fae t«Bth .cnfewy. , TIm idob tod met vi Jkmammm appeta to
10 Miebluh tfaii; the inhihUrtrfii of that amtry weta «fc ton*
11 imAi|y|iwii of Boodh*
12 Tbm peuiile'wii gownnd in tltt niffi oC Mahmood of-fiJraBir.b^
13 ■ i|Biioeiin»d MilMMiiiie il. who mw rtfifiwtcd end (thm ptiMMt
14 h^ thai oonqncivr. Hia'deMBdwte mfltarad nnj iipniei fiom'tfae
15 Howe of Ghaenee^taitfae middle of the twdfih emtmy, wfa«n thiy
16 •t laat took up.aiBMy.difealed and dethroiMd the King of Ghumee»
17 Mid burnt that iMgnifiowt eepiul to the groand. jChejc afterwarda
18 eonlaiiiied to extend their empir^ and by d^ees reduced under thei»
19 government, the whole of the present ^f'"gdffin of CJnbidy India*
20 ftijitjip BiidiikhrfMiiuni aad a-iprent pert- of KhDnMaan*
21 * TlwlMtcfduMplarnksdlltlieMiUofagowniiiienttotheiiordH^^
22 HMmMNBooh Tnny he prr^iiTned to have given its nnmr to thr Fmnnks nf Froroosecohee ;
23 fa^ fimn t}ie positioa of tbaz rtnimee, we abouldi pkce it to the east of UemiL Biil»
24 not rery obvious, ^vln\h of the three was the seat of the Ghoree kings. The fintif to
25 the •ot^-ens't of Buikh ; thr pcronrJ, north-'vrc't nf Ghn^ncy ; nnt! thr third, east of PoiTb,
26 The Skw native opiBkitW 1 have heard ttx t»i the last menUoned pkcei and, i am atrongly
27 iadinedtoi^^iHdillMn, from die coBodenlim oT a passage in I)^ IMdM
28 Gaiatheddin), where one of the kings of Ghorc is said to have reducetl " Raver and Ker-
29 menir, wiuch acponte Ghore from Hindostan." These countries must, therefore, have
30 Uil to ^ east of (^loce. As k andg are expressed by the same litterfa FHraian, th^a
31 cm be no ilimlil lliil fliiiiiMni m niiiiiiieiiiii is meant by the second of these words ; tnKl
32 Raver, probnMy Tncan-; the nr^ioininp district of D.i\vcr, or Zemeen Dawer (the kiui ui"
33 Dawer). The dose res^blanci ! < -.-u the Per^iaa d and r, may have led to this mi»-
34 tik%«yAbMbM«nedly eopii.^! byate<Mfanlali«la. Gertifa ft fa, tkit fte aanM
35 of Raver and fTftmiltr are not nam to be found. Now of the three Ghorees, that near
36 Fumdi alone is to the we«t nC Oiimi»[^r nrif] Dawer, aJld| OOtMCqoentfy it elone CBB bc Mid
37 to be separated from Hindostan by tiiosc districts.
38 Uigitizeaby Googlc