The Memoirs of Bābur 903.2.8

903.2.8

Another district is Qarshī, known also as Nashaf and Nakhshab.[403] Qarshī is a Mughūl name. In the Mughūl tongue they call a _kūr-khāna_ Qarshī.[404] The name must have come in after the rule of Chīngīz Khān. Qarshī is somewhat scantily supplied with water; in spring it is very beautiful and its grain and melons are good. It lies 18 _yīghāch_[405] by road south and a little inclined to west of Samarkand. In the district a small bird, known as the _qīl-qūyīrūgh_ and resembling the _bāghrī qarā_, is found in such countless numbers that it goes by the name of the Qarshī birdie (_murghak_).[406] Khozār is another district; Karmīna another, lying between Samarkand and Bukhārā; Qarā-kūl another, 7 _yīghāch_[407] n.w. of Bukhārā and at the furthest limit of the water.