[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) › [Tabakat-i-Nasiri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty) › 261.1.7 # The Nāṣirī Generations 261.1.7 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 261.1.7 - **Language:** English ### [261.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.261.1.7) I have no opportunity, at present, of examining the Nisawi’s History, but I feel certain that no such name as the city of Kandahar will be found in it unless the interpolation of some more modern writer or copyist; and further that it will not be found in any History of that period. Kandahar adjoins the tract called the Zamin-i-Dawar, which Baihaki so often refers to in connexion with Bust and Kusdar, and whose work, devoted to a single reign, is so full of detail; and he mentions Walisht in connexion with those places, but never mentions such a place as Kandahar. At page 319, our author too, in his account of the five great mountain ranges of Ghur, says, that “the fourth is the mountain tract of Warani, in the valleys and outskirts of which are the territories of Dawar \[the Zamin-i-Dawar\], Walisht, and the Kasr of Kajuran.” Is it possible that such a position as that of the city of Kandahar could then have been in existence, and lying in the easiest route between Ghaznin and Bust, without being once mentioned? It is also improbable that Walisht can be Walishtan, because we are distinctly told that the latter was in Tukharistan, which lies some five degrees farther north than Kandahar. The so-called “Saygill,” of some European writers, is merely an error for Sigiz, or Sijiz. The ancient name too of Kandahar is said to have been Waihind, and of the province Balyus. - [Previous: 261.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.261.1.6) - [Next: 261.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.261.1.8) - [Up: 261.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.261.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.261.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.261.1.7) · Pramāṇa