ملف رقم ١٣٧٧ لسنة ١٩٠٥، جزء ٣، "الحدود الفارسية البلوشستانية: مسألة بيران وكاشا" [و‎‎٢‎٤‎٣] (٢٠٩/١٦٥)

PlRAN.
cut by the Perso-Baluch Boundary and^ ba * n ^ S °f Pl * ran river near wheTe H is
amounting to some 8 or 10 acres ci]ltivr+ S1 ^l S v° ^ V< ' ?, lec ?? * an ^ collectively
Rustam Khan Kutkhuda of Dekdela in Par 6 Tu Rashlc * K han » brother to
Baluch interlopers. Kran extends ™ tn ? d b y. certain Shahozai Persia "
2,860 yards. While the whole of this is t nortb to sout h» along the river banks,
piece of land h^ ts own specia nle ^oTal “ P l ran ’ yet each
most northern is calkd “ Nolir, ” ,■ dea l s PfcjficaUy with each. The
, ^cam comes “ Daualatabad ”. This is situated about 660 yards
ro Nokjo and is also on the left bank of the river. It was prepared like Nokio
!onth of™ n 0n b i U e n a j » n 1 act . uall 3 r sown - T bree hundred and eighty-five yards
bed ^ of Plaualatabad lies “Abdullabad ” situated on both sides of the''river
bed ims was placed last summer under cultivation, but, as in the case of the
lands referred to above, its Zanzai cultivators were ejected by the Persians. In
addition to the foregoing there were two small pieces of land, on the right bank
named respectively “Zohrabad” and “ Ahmedabadthese lie opposite
Daualatabad and Nokjo, respectively, and no attempt has been made to culti-
a ii ° f i- te y ears * The y ar ? botl1 insignificant in area. South of
Abdulla bad at a distance of 220 yards, is placed the most important land on the
river which is known as “ Piran Ziarat ”, a name derived from the several Ziarats
in the vicinity. It is an elongated stretch of ground some 355 yards in length by
165 yards in breadth at the widest. About 330 yards above Piran Ziarat comes
the last piece termed Murghi ” which is watered from the same channel which
supplies Piran Ziarat. In area it is insignificant. The lands north of Piran
Ziarat each possess their own irrigation channel taking off from the main supply
in the. river bed. The water for the Piran Ziarat cultivation takes its rise in a
patch of jungle in the river bed some 770 yards up-stream.
Ziarats .—These number four and enumerated from north to south are as
follows:—
(i) Syed Langar, 330 yards north of the Piran Ziarat cultivation.
(ii) Shahid Langar situated 190 yards to the south of No. (i) and said to
be the Ziarat of No. one’s disciple.
(iii) Syed Hussain Langar, 170 yards south of No. (ii) and said to be the
Ziarat of No. one’s son.
(iv) Pir Sultan Ziarat, 180 yards south of No. (iii).
In addition to the foregoing there is a small ziarat a few yards west of No. (ii)
which was erected, so Kutkhuda Rustam, who came in from Garmsel to see me and
has proved of great assistance, tells me by his idiot son Wali some 15 years ago
but it is generally regarded as being spurious. As to which of the foregoing is
the most important is a question which it is not easy to decide. Nos. (ii) and (iii)
may be eliminated, the sanctity attached to them being of small import; the
difficulty lies in deciding between the relative merits of Nos. (i) and (iv). The
ziarats of Pir Sultan and Syed Langar are usually to be found in close juxtaposition
throughout the western portion of this Agency. Of the two saints the Pir Sultan
has the larger following and is regarded as being the most powerful for good or evil;
while this is so, however, the question in reality resolves itself into one of belief.
The followers of the Syed regard him as being the premier whereas the adherents
of Pir Sultan, who allege that their saint was a companion of the Prophet, traverse
this. Counting the graves which each ziarat claims as its own did not show a way
out of the difficulty, for, whereas the Syed Ziarat has 25 graves to its credit, as
against Pir Sultan Ziarat’s 16, it was explained that certain Zarizai wayfarers,
whose saint is the Syed, lost 8 children, while passing a few years ago through
Piran, from fever of a malignant type, thus giving the Syed’s Ziarat the present
balance of graves in its favour.