Kashm, Or Keshm, Found Its Way Into Maps Through Petis De
La Croix, From Whom Probably D'Anville Adopted It; But As It Was Ignored
By Elphinstone (Or By Macartney, Who Constructed His Map), And By Burnes,
It Dropped Out Of Our Geography.
Indeed, Wood does not notice it except as
giving name to a high hill called the Hill of Kishm, and the position even
of that he omits to indicate.
The frequent mention of Kishm in the
histories of Timur and Humayun (e.g. P. de la Croix, I. 167; N. et E.
XIV. 223, 491; Erskine's Baber and Humayun, II. 330, 355, etc.) had
enabled me to determine its position within tolerably narrow limits; but
desiring to fix it definitely, application was made through Colonel
Maclagan to Pandit Manphul, C.S.I., a very intelligent Hindu gentleman,
who resided for some time in Badakhshan as agent of the Panjab Government,
and from him arrived a special note and sketch, and afterwards a MS. copy
of a Report,[1] which set the position of Kishm at rest.
KISHM is the Kilissemo, i.e. Karisma or Krishma, of Hinen Tsang; and Sir
H. Rawlinson has identified the Hill of Kishm with the Mount Kharesem of
the Zend-Avesta, on which Jamshid placed the most sacred of all the fires.
It is now a small town or large village on the right bank of the Varsach
river, a tributary of the Kokcha. It was in 1866 the seat of a district
ruler under the Mir of Badakhshan, who was styled the Mir of Kishm, and is
the modern counterpart of Marco's Quens or Count.
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