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APPENDIX, No. HI.
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No. III.
The following extract from the ancient Chronicle of Tabari
is referred to in the Preface, page x, and may serve to illustrate
Ebn Haukal's account of the Hamyaritick inscription on the gate
of Samarcand. See p. 254, and 287.
The transactions here recorded are said to have happened early
in the sixth century, when Cobad, the Persian monarch, was slain,
and his dominions invaded and plundered by the Arabs, under
Samar, a nephew of the Tobba, or king of Yemen. The account
of this invasion, and of Cobad's death, as related by Tabari, with
a literal translation, will be found in the Oriental Collections,
vol. iii. p. 150; where I have given it as a specimen of the most
pure and ancient Parsi. The original Chronicle of Tabari was
written in the Arabick language; and this Persian translation
was made in the year of the Hegira 352, (A. D. 9^3), by a vizier
of the Samanian princes*, who inserted many curious traditions
and observations of his own. See the Preface, p. xii.
* D'Herbelot, Bibliot. Orient. Art. Tarikh and Thabari.