, the name of a range of mountains running roughly south-north and to the west of the Indus river in modern Pākistān.
The Sulaymān rise from the low tract of the Dērad̲j̲āt [q.v.] which lie along the right bank of the Indus and run, in a series of long, sharp-backed ridges and jagged peaks, from the Bugt́ī and Marī districts of north-east Balūčistān in the south to the Gomal Pass [see gūmāl in Suppl.] and river in the north, thereafter continuing as the Wazīristān hills (i.e. they lie between latitudes 28° 50′ and 32° 20′ N.). It is at the northern end that the highe…