The Memoirs of Bābur 910.5.2

910.5.2

One of the three is the `Alī-shang _tūmān_, to the north of which are fastness-mountains, connecting with Hindū-kush and inhabited by Kāfirs only. What of Kāfiristān lies nearest to `Alī-shang, is Mīl out of which its torrent issues. The tomb of Lord Lām,[780] father of his Reverence the prophet Nuḥ (Noah), is in this _tūmān_. In some histories he is called Lamak and Lamakān. Some people are observed often to change _kāf_ for _ghain_ (_k_ for _gh_); it would seem to be on this account that the country is called Lamghān. The second is Alangār. The part of Kāfiristān nearest to it is Gawār (Kawār), out of which its torrent issues (the Gau or Kau). This torrent joins that of `Alī-shang and flows with it [Sidenote: Fol. 133b.] into the Bārān-water, below Mandrāwar, which is the third _tūmān_ of the Lamghānāt.