1 CANDAHAK. 4^$
2 ifthabttants of Peahairar and Gaubo], vlio hmridf ai djflbnnt tDM,
3 been under his government.
4 The city of Candahar is large hkI pc^ulom. Uennt and Candafaar
5 are the only c it ies in the Doorauncc country ; and, except Furra, pro-
6 bably the only places which even merit the name of a town. The
7 ancient city is ^cmik Mines said to have been founded by Lohrasp, a
8 rerwiaii Knig who floiti ished in times of very remote antiquity, and
9 to wiiom also the founding of Heraut is attributed. It is lusserted
10 by others, with far greater piubability, to have been built l>y Secun-
11 der Zoolkurnyne, that by Alexander the Great. The tradiiious
12 of the Persians here agree with the conjectures of European geo-
13 graphers, who fix on this tite for one of the dtiea caUed Alexandria.
14 The ancient <aty atood till^ feign of the Ghiljiea, when Shenh
15 Hooaadn founded a new city under die name of HnaieindbedL
16 Nadir Shaidi attempted again to alter the adte of the town, and boiU
17 Nadirabads at laat Ahmed Shauh founded the proaent cily*, to
18 iriiidi he ganre the name of Ahmed 8hauhee»andthe title of ufiAfw^wil
19 Bdnit or the nofaleat of dtiea ; by that name and title it ia atill
20 mentioned in public papers, and in the language of the court { but
21 the old name of Candahar still prevails among the pec^le, thou^ ii
22 has lost its rhyming addition of Dourool KurraTt or the abode' of
23 quiet Ahmed Shauh himself marked out the limits of the present
24 cits', and laid down the roirular plan which is still so remarkable in
25 its execution i he sm i omuk d it with a wall, and proposed to have
26 added a ditch ; but the Ddoraunees arc said to have objected to his
27 - fortifications, and to have declared that their ditch was the Cheracn
28 of Bistaim (a meadow near Bistaun in tlie iuost western })art of Per-
29 sian Kliora.'>.'»auJi). Candahar was the capital of tlie Doorauoee em-
30 pire in Ahmed Shauh's time, but Timour changed the seat of
31 government to CauboL
32 I am utterly at a kaa how to fix the extent of C^ndahai-f or the
33 • hi mh 54-
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