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Qasha

قاشا

A city whose people depart from the creed of the Chinese; they burn their dead in the Indian manner, ten stages from Baja. 1

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A city whose people differ from the practice of the Chinese, and who burn their dead in the Indian manner. It lies ten stages from Baja, according to al-Idrisi. 2

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  1. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p. 213
  2. Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols. , p.213
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