1 3 )'Herbelot, fi.
2 G84.
3 4 Bal. Afg. Panj.
4 i. 455.
5 Walker’s Map of
6 N.W. Frontier.
7 Burnes, Rep. of
8 Com. of Hydra-
9 bad, 17.
10 Vigne, Kashmir,
11 Map.
12 Id. ii. 32;
13 Moorer. Punj.
14 Bokhara, li. 242;
15 Ayeen Akbery, ii.
16 139.
17 92 PAK—PAM.
18 but one small apartment, containing the remains of the saint in a
19 grave, covered with faded drapery. There are in it two small
20 doors, one to the north, the other to the east. The last is called
21 the “ door to Paradise,” and is only opened on the fifth day of
22 the first Mahometan month, called Mohkarram, and considered
23 peculiarly holy, in reference to the belief that during the ten first
24 days the Koran® was sent from heaven for revelation to men.
25 This doorway is about two feet wide, but so low that it cannot
26 be passed without stooping; and the chamber itself is of such
27 contracted dimensions, that it can contain only about thirty per-
28 sons. Those who rub their foreheads on the saint’s grave are
29 considered safe from perdition ; the first who enters the chamber
30 is believed to secure thereby a peculiarly high degree of felicity
31 in a future state, and as the crowd of pilgrims, comprising Hin-
32 doos as well as Mussulmans, is immense, the crush is tremendous.
33 The natives, however, assert that no accidents occur, in conse-
34 quence of the tender care which the saint has for his votaries.
35 Among other relics preserved here is a piece of wood in the shape
36 of a cake, which, it is said, was used by the saint to solace him-
37 self when assailed by hunger during his long fasts. Pak Pattan
38 is supposed by Masson‘ to have been the site of the colossal
39 altars erected by Alexander to mark the eastern boundary of his
40 conquests. Lat. 30° 20’, long. 73° 13’.
41 PAKHA SIDHARO, in the Punjab, a village situate in lat.
42 30° 20’, long. 73° 3’.
43 PAKRUN.—See Doosan River.
44 PALALU.—See Putuxv.
45 PALLIA, in Sinde, a small town on the route from Cutch to
46 Hyderabad, and ninety miles south-east of the latter place. Lat.
47 24° 14’, long. 68° 51’.
48 PAMBUR, in the north-east of the Punjab, a small town on
49 the route from Kishtewar to Kashmir by the Muru Wurdwun
50 pass. It is situate on the Muru Wurdwun river, forty miles
51 above its confluence with the Chenaub. Lat. 33° 38’, long.
52 75° 40’.
53 PAMGHAN, or PAMGHAAN.—See Pucuman.
54 PAMPUR, in Kashmir, a town about five miles west of the
55 city of Kashmir, is situate on the north bank of the Jailum or
56 Behut, in a level tract of great fertility, and presents most de-
57 lightful views of the mountain ranges to the north. Here is a