The Nāṣirī Generations 261.2.7

261.2.7

They proceeded towards Nang-rahar [originally called Nek-anhar — the district immediately south of the Kabul river, and extending from Bhati-kot on the east to the Surkh-Ab Kotal on the west, and to Kaja on the south, which was the fief of the A’zam Malik, and then included in the jurisdiction of Burshor, or Parshawar]. Arrived there he entertained the other chiefs for a time, but, there being aversion between Nuh, the Jan-dar [in Elliot, incorrectly rendered from an imperfect MS., probably, Koh jdn-ddr, a strange name for a man. The office of Jan-dar has been previously described], who was head of a khel [clan] of about 5000 or 6000 families, and Malik Saif-ud-Din, Ighrak, he, in consequence, turned his face towards Parshawar with his 20,000 followers, while Nuh, the Jan-dar, stayed behind in the pasture-lands of Nangrahar [not “cantoned himself,” as in the work above quoted]. When Saif-ud-Din had proceeded one stage on his way, he sent a message to the A’zam Malik saying: — “We are as father and son towards each other: thou, the son, I the father. If thou desirest my good pleasure, send away Nuh, the Jan-dar, to his own place of dwelling, and his own locality, and do not allow him to remain in Nangrahar. [The Khalj tribe — or rather a portion of them — had been located in the neighbourhood of the Safed-koh, on the southern slopes, in Karman and Shaluzan for several centuries previous. See note 5, page 539, para.