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982 AD calls Bolör a vast country - with a king who declares
himself to be Son of the Sun. He has the title Bulürin-shäh.
Surprisingly well informed via different "channels" was Blmnl.
The bulk of his references was included in his work on India.
Geographical whereabouts are properly indicated: on the route to
the mountains of Unang, settled by Turks, where "the river Sindh
rises", "leaving the ravine by which you enter Kashmir, and enter-
ing the plateau, then you have for a march of two more days on
your left the mountains of Bolor and Shamilan". The mountains
mentioned here certainly correspond to what we now call the
"Gilgit Karakorum", south of the Gilgit river, and the westernmost
Himalayas, on both sides of the Babusar. That is compatible with
the name of the towns then mentioned by Birünï, namely Gilgit,
Aswira = Astor and Shiltas = Chilas.
But then we are confronted with a problem: the inhabitants are
described as "Turkish tribes who are called Bhattavaryan. Their
king has the title Bhatta-Shah" (SACHAU 1880: 278). (Only two
pages earlier we found another name apparently for the same
person: "1 -
speak a "E M
inroads". ËT"
Taken at E*^
of the etf ET"
language E-2
lects. Ë-
I saw thi; E_m
to the po E_
well awai Ë h-
the valle] Ë
a massivt E ^
of Little Ë"
Turkish 1 =*
stratifica E"
o
F O
E E
at the "Bhattavaryan"
mffers much of their
Le a complete change
<tion of Turkish tribes.
- at least the change
uent one - happened
[ndigenous population
}n - as is indicated by
were replaced by the
!speaking Tibetan dia-
1 wrote a contribution
th Pakistan, but I was
1 linguistic situation in
s an attempt to assert
) the former territories
^tested in Dardic and
rts indicating an ethnic
her his informants) did
rks. The situation was
101
himself to be Son of the Sun. He has the title Bulürin-shäh.
Surprisingly well informed via different "channels" was Blmnl.
The bulk of his references was included in his work on India.
Geographical whereabouts are properly indicated: on the route to
the mountains of Unang, settled by Turks, where "the river Sindh
rises", "leaving the ravine by which you enter Kashmir, and enter-
ing the plateau, then you have for a march of two more days on
your left the mountains of Bolor and Shamilan". The mountains
mentioned here certainly correspond to what we now call the
"Gilgit Karakorum", south of the Gilgit river, and the westernmost
Himalayas, on both sides of the Babusar. That is compatible with
the name of the towns then mentioned by Birünï, namely Gilgit,
Aswira = Astor and Shiltas = Chilas.
But then we are confronted with a problem: the inhabitants are
described as "Turkish tribes who are called Bhattavaryan. Their
king has the title Bhatta-Shah" (SACHAU 1880: 278). (Only two
pages earlier we found another name apparently for the same
person: "1 -
speak a "E M
inroads". ËT"
Taken at E*^
of the etf ET"
language E-2
lects. Ë-
I saw thi; E_m
to the po E_
well awai Ë h-
the valle] Ë
a massivt E ^
of Little Ë"
Turkish 1 =*
stratifica E"
o
F O
E E
at the "Bhattavaryan"
mffers much of their
Le a complete change
<tion of Turkish tribes.
- at least the change
uent one - happened
[ndigenous population
}n - as is indicated by
were replaced by the
!speaking Tibetan dia-
1 wrote a contribution
th Pakistan, but I was
1 linguistic situation in
s an attempt to assert
) the former territories
^tested in Dardic and
rts indicating an ethnic
her his informants) did
rks. The situation was
101