‘The Oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century’ [‎203] (256/388)

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Account of Seiestan or Sejestan.
The east of Seiestan is bounded by the desert of
Makran, and of the land of Sind cX-Lw and partly by the
territories of (^UJ Multan. To the west it has Khorasan and
part of the territories of Hind: To the north it has Hindoostan;
it is bounded on the south by the deserts of Seiestan and Kirman.
Zarinje is fortified, and has a castle, with walls and
ditches: the water which supplies these ditches, springs up in
them ; and it has other supplies of water. It has also five gates.
One gate is called jO Deri Alien (iron gate) ; another, the
Dervazeh Kohen : a road passes through each of
these gates. The third gate is that of Gurkouneh, on
the Khorasan road. The fourth, called Der Beleski,
(perhaps for Bosti) leads to C^ j Bost: this is the most
frequented of any of these gates. All these have gates of iron.
The fortifications have thirteen gates: one called Uyycj ojl
Dervazeh Remind, or Meina, which leads to Pars; another,
the bO oj Uj eS Dervazeh Gurkan; the third, Dervazeh
Ashirek ; the fourth, Deri San; the
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