(17th Shahr of 25). From Asfand, Harev (Harew) was approached through the Zam district and the station Asbana. The Hari river was, like the Murghab, extensively used for irrigation; and so it supported a heavy population (Pliny vi. 25/93). Strabo (XI.10.1) cites its abundant wine-production. Other cities in the region of Harev (Alexandria) itself were Candac, Artacauan, and Apameia. Shapur I added to these or perhaps refounded one, as Pushang; and there he bridged the Hari. The capital itself was a vital point of administration and of communications toward Bactria, India, and Sagistan. The Parthians, in holding it, were able to channel the Sacarauca migration to the south. The Sasanians, in losing it after Peroz's defeat, left western Abarshahr (Kuhistan) open to Hephthalite penetration. Like Marv, with which it was connected by aroad through Vadges (Badghis), Harev had become a bishopric by 424. Ardashir's foundation in Vadges probably helped secure the road. That flourshing district, "full of trees and verdure" was itself a bishopric in the 6th century. A north-easterly road to bactria connected Harev with the Balkh-Bamiyan road to Ortospana, which was apparently between Kapisa and Kabul. Harev thus shared in the Indian trade as well as the Chinese; Change K'ien attributed to it the same coins, trade goods, and weapons as in Kashmir.

-The Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3(2): The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian Periods, ed. Ehsan Yarshater (NY: Cambridge UP, 1983), 769.