Of the Behistun Inscription as the
equivalent of Gaddra in the Persian, i.e. Gandhara, there applied to the
whole country between Bactria and the Indus. (See J. R. G. S. XLII.
502.) Some such traditional application of the term Pashai might have
survived.
[1] The Kafir dialect of which Mr. Trumpp collected some particulars shows
in the present tense of the substantive verb these remarkable forms: -
Ei sum, Tu sis, siga se; Ima simis, Wi sik, Sige sin.
[2] In the Tabakat-i-Nasiri (Elliot, II. 317) we find mention of the
Highlands of Pasha-Afroz, but nothing to define their position.
CHAPTER XXXI.
OF THE PROVINCE OF KESHIMUR.
Keshimur also is a Province inhabited by a people who are Idolaters and
have a language of their own.[NOTE 1] They have an astonishing
acquaintance with the devilries of enchantment; insomuch that they make
their idols to speak. They can also by their sorceries bring on changes of
weather and produce darkness, and do a number of things so extraordinary
that no one without seeing them would believe them.[NOTE 2] Indeed, this
country is the very original source from which Idolatry has spread
abroad.[NOTE 3]
In this direction you can proceed further till you come to the Sea of
India.
