a town of Persia, in the province of Kusistan, situated on the eastern bank of the Abzal, in a beautiful and spacious plain. Its only ornament is an elegant bridge, erected by the command of Sapor, a prince celebrated both as the destroyer and the founder of cities. This bridge is 450 paces in length, twenty in breadth, and about forty in height. The piers are of large stones, and the arches and upper parts of brick. The population is nearly 15,000. It is twenty-eight miles west from Shuster.