the form _Kharkota_ it is quoted by the _N. P.W._
from _Caraka_, vi. 23. _Kharkhota_ appears as the designation of a
sorcerer or another kind of uncanny persons in _Haracar_., ii. 125, along
with Krtyas and Vetalas...."

3.--PAONANO PAO. (Vol. i. p. 173.)

In his paper on _Zoroastrian Deities on Indo-Scythians' Coins_
(_Babylonian and Oriental Record_, August, 1887, pp. 155-166; rep. in the
_Indian Antiquary_, 1888), Dr. M.A. Stein has demonstrated that the
legend PAONANO PAO on the coins of the Yue-Chi or Indo-Scythian Kings
(Kanishka, Huvishka, Vasudeva), is the exact transcription of the old
Iranian title _Shahanan Shah_ (Persian _Shahan-shah_), "King of Kings";
the letter P, formerly read as P(_r_), has since been generally
recognised, in accordance with his interpretation as a distinct character
expressing the sound _sh_.

4.--PAMIR. (Vol. i. pp. 174-175.)

I was very pleased to find that my itinerary agrees with that of Dr. M.A.
Stein; this learned traveller sends me the following remarks: "The remark
about the absence of birds (pp. 174-175) _might_ be a reflex of the very
ancient legend (based probably on the name zend _Upairi-saena_, pehlevi
_Aparsin_, 'higher than the birds') which represents the _Hindu Kush_
range proper as too high for birds to fly over. The legend can be traced
by successive evidence in the case of the range north of Kabul."--
Regarding the route (p. 175) from the _Wakhjir_ (sic) Pass down the
Taghdum-bash Pamir, then via Tash-kurghan, Little Karakul, Bulun Kul,
Gez Daria to Tashmalik and Kashgar, Dr. Stein says that he surveyed it in
July, 1900, and he refers for the correct phonetic spelling of local names
along it to his map to be published in _J.R.G.S._, in December, 1902.
He says in his _Prel. Report_, p. 10: "The _Wakhjir_ Pass, only some 12
miles to the south-west of _Koek-toeroek_, connects the Taghdumbash Pamir
and the Sarikol Valleys with the head-waters of the Oxus. So I was glad
that the short halt, which was unavoidable for survey purposes, permitted
me to move a light camp close to the summit of the Wakhjir Pass (circ.
16,200 feet). On the following day, 2nd July, I visited the head of
_Ab-i-Panja_ Valley, near the great glaciers which Lord Curzon first
demonstrated to be the true source of the River Oxus. It was a strange
sensation for me in this desolate mountain waste to know that I had reached
at last the eastern threshold of that distant region, including Bactria an