1 164 SAI—SAK.
2 ‘Masson, Bal, Afg- SATYADABAD,} in Afghanistan, a dilapidated fortress situate
3 Panj. ii. 425.
4 in the valley of Bamian, and close to the western side of the
5 ruined city of Galgula. It is a huge, massive structure, originally
6 of great strength, built of burnt bricks of extraordinary size.
7 The entrance was formerly through a gateway of large dimen-
8 sions on the western side, but this has been long built up, and
9 admission to the interior is now gained by one much smaller on
10 the south. The inmates live in rows of houses of two stories,
11 each story being about twenty-five feet high. These rows are
12 ranged along the inside of the ramparts, so that a small area is
13 left in the middle of the inclosure. All the houses exhibit traces
14 of having formerly been covered with domes of mud, but these
15 have fallen in from the ravages of time, and the roofs are now
16 fiat, and supported on rafters. Water is at present obtained
17 from a well, but there is a tradition that it formerly was supplied
18 by subterraneous aqueducts, the situation of which being dis-
19 closed to a besieger by the daughter of a king who once held the
20 place, its capture was the consequence. Hence it is called by
21 the natives Killa Dokhtar, “ daughter’s castle.”
22 Masson supposes that Saiyadabad formed part of the ill-fated
23 city of Gulgula, and consequently fell with it before the arms of
24 * As. Res. vi. 472, Zingis Khan.? In the early part of the present century the fort
25 Wilford,on
26 Mount Caucasus,
27 Masson, Bal. Afg.
28 Panj. i. 403,
29 was repaired and rendered defensible, and its owner, confiding in
30 its impregnability, acted as if independent of the ruler of Kabool.
31 Being made prisoner, he was under the necessity of surrendering
32 the place to the wily Haji Khan Khaka, so notorious for his tor-
33 tuous and treacherous policy during the occupation of Kabool by
34 the British. Connected with the fortress, and in the same archi-
35 tectural style, are the massive ruins of a mosque, from which
36 circumstance Masson -concludes that this stronghold was con-
37 structed by Mussulmans, Saiyadabad is in lat. 34° 50‘, long.
38 67° 50’.
39 SAIYADWALA, in the Punjab, a considerable walled town,
40 situate near the right or western bank of the Ravi. A spacious
41 and well-furnished bazaar extends quite across it. A few hun-
42 dred yards to the west of the town is a mud fortress of consider-
43 able strength, surrounded by a trench. Lat. 31° 5’, long. 73° 16’.
44 E.LO. Ms. Doc. / SAKHEE SAWAR PASS, in Afghanistan, on the route from
45 Dera Ghazee Khan to Kandahar. It is a difficult pass, pene-
46 trating the Suliman mountains at Ootpalana in lat, 30° 2’, long.