Page 15, line 7 from foot. The figure 1 should be placed at
Sultanu-n-nisa Begam.
p. 24, l. 5. For my read his. With reference to n. 2, p. 120, l. 13,
shows that the father meant is Shahrukh.
p. 34, l. 2 of verse. Solomon's greatness depended on the possession
of a ring. When that was lost his power departed. See the story
of its loss and recovery in Mir Khwand (Rehatsek's translation,
pt. i, 100). Probably then the line should be rendered 'Call him the
ring-wearing Solomon.'
p. 38, near foot. The words 'the news,' etc., are not a verse, and
Nazar-jivi should be Nazar Chuli, i.e. the Nazar who accompanied
Humayun through the desert (chul). See Akbar-nama translation, i,
657, n. 3.
p. 39, l. 2. For near Lahore read a dependency of Lahore. Kalanur is
the Kalanaur of the maps, and is 15 miles west of Gurdaspur (I.G.,
new ed., xiv, 297).
p. 43, note. For lithograph read text.
p. 46, l. 8. For Mirza read Miran.
p. 50, l. 1, and note 1. I.O. MSS. seem to have Tanam Bahadur. The
reference to Ma'asiru-l-umara is ii, 140. The name of Muzaffar
Gujarati's son was Bahadur.
p. 54, n. 1. For Price, p. 6 read Price, p. 68. The Iqbal-nama and
Khulasatu-t-tawarikh say he was put in charge of Ihtimam Kotwal.
p. 58, n. 2. It is Nilera in I.O. MS. No. 181.
p. 60, l. 6. The meaning is that `Abidin was the son of `Abdu-llah
Khan's spiritual adviser. `Abidin is called `Abidi in Akbar-nama,
iii, 832. He came to India in 1013 (1604-5), and Akbar gave him the
rank of 1,000 and 500 horse (iii, 834).
p. 65, l. 11. For know read knew.
p. 66, l. 7. The MSS. seem to have Jaihal.
p. 66, last line. Kilin means 'daughter-in-law' in Turki. Perhaps
Kilan here is a synonym for 'son-in-law.'
p. 67, l. 8. The words 'which in Hindustani is called balli' are not in
the I.O. MSS. I do not know the word balli as meaning a pole. Perhaps
it is a mistake for laggi.
p. 76, l. 3 from foot. Omit the words 'who is one of the khanazadas
of the State.'
p. 79, l. 6. For and cash read in cash.
p. 81, n. 1. Delete question mark and the words 'near
Multan.' Nandanpur, i.e. Nandana (I.G., xviii, 349), and Girjhak
are in the Jhelam district. The Ram Das garden was some place near
Lahore, where Jahangir took up his residence on the way to the
hunting-ground. He spent 3 1/2 months in hunting.
p. 84, l. 19. For `Abdu-r-Rahim, read `Abdu-r-Rahman.
p. 87, l. 21. Firishta in his account of Babar says the Daulat Khan of
that time was descended from the Daulat Khan who in 816 A.H. (1413-14)
was Sultan of Delhi. See Elliot, iv, 45.
p. 90, l. 4 from foot. Jahangirpur is mentioned in account of 15th
year, p. 317, last line (text). It is the Shekhopura of the maps,
and is 22 miles from Hafizabad and 18 miles west of Lahore. It was
called Shaikhupura in allusion to Jahangir's pet name of Shaikhu Baba,
and also in honour of Shaikh Salim. See Khulasa T. in account of
Jahangir's reign. The I.G., xxii, 270, wrongly ascribes its origin to
Dara Shukuh. Mulla Husain Kashmiri, mentioned on p. 91, died in 1037
(1627-8), Rieu, ii, 7756. The minaret is still standing. See Eastwick's
"Panjab Handbook," 200. Instead of 'the gravestone in the shape of an
antelope' we should render, I think, 'a stone tomb with the figure
of an antelope (engraved upon it).' The I. O. MSS. have Marraj as
the name of the antelope. Perhaps we should read Manoraj 'mind's lord.'
p. 99, l. 3 from foot. I. O. MSS, have bahur b-hUr as the name of
the net.
p. 109, n. 1. Delete note. The rang is the ibex.
p. 110, n. 1. See J.A.S.B. for February, 1908, p. 39.
p. 117. The Iqbal-nama mentions in connection with the story of the
mummified saint that many Sabzawar saints lived in Bamiyan. See also
Kamgar Husaini.
p. 120, l. 1. Delete word 'Georgians.' I. O. MS. No. 181 has ghurja.
p. 122, l. 10. Insert 'and' after 'sheep.'
p. 125, l. 13. For garden read gardens.
p. 133, l. 4. For £ read rupees.
p. 134, l. 15. For he died on the 29th read he died in his ninth decade
(i.e. between 80 and 90). The Ma'asiru-l-umara, ii, 143, says he was
82 when he died.
p. 134, l. 13 from foot. Instead of 'he went off alone' the MSS. have
'carrying off his life' (i.e. escaping) with difficulty.
p. 136, n. 1. The opinion expressed in this note is proved to be wrong
by General Cunningham's Report, Arch. S., xiv, p. 58. The tombs are
those of a musician and his pupil.
p. 140, l. 8. Delete Sylvia olivacea.
p. 143, l. 7. Apparently there were twelve balls, or at least objects,
ten being as large as an orange, another being a citron, and the
twelfth a surkh. So instead of 'one to a citron' we should read,
perhaps, 'a citron and a surkh.'
p. 143, l. 3 from foot. For Ilf read Alf.
p. 147, l. 4 from foot. Delete the word 'Egyptian' and also n. 1. It
appears from the Ghiyasu-l-loghat that a Qutbi ruby is a broad ruby
suitable for a ring (signet?).
p. 153, l. 13 from foot. For Hamazani read Hamadani.
p. 156. According to Terry, Jahandar was called Sultan Takht because
born when Jahangir first sat on his throne.
p. 158, l. 9. Perhaps Yuzi = Yuz-bashi, i.e. centurion. But I. O. 181
has not the word, only saying 'Shah Beg Khan,' and No. 305 has Shah
Beg Khan Buri(?).
p. 158, l. 10. The passage is wrongly translated. No elephant
was presented to Salamu-llah. The sentence should end on
l. 9 after the word 'panther-keeper,' which word is probably a
mistranslation. Then this new sentence should come, i.e. 'Salamu-llah
`Arab, who is a young man of a distinguished Arabian family (kih az
jawanan-i-qarar-dada-i-`Arab ast) and related to Mubarak, the governor
of Dizful, came to wait upon me on account of his being suspicious
of the designs of Shah `Abbas (against himself).' 'I patronized him,'
etc. (as on p. 158).
p. 158, n. 3, and p. 162, n. 1. Both notes are wrong. The place meant
by Jahangir is Dizful, a town in the Khuzistan province of Persia,
and Juyza is evidently a copyist's error for Khuz or Khuza, another
name for Khuzistan. Dizful is an ancient name, and according to Yaqut,
Barbier de Meynard's translation, p. 231, the proper spelling is
Dizpul, i.e. 'the Bridge of the Citadel,' the town being named after
a famous bridge built over the river. For Khuz see B. de Meynard, 216.
p. 160, l. 12 from foot. Qabulah was a town in the Bet Jalandhar Du'ab.
p. 163, l. 9. It is 2,000 rupees in I. O. MSS.
p. 163, l. 12. It is not Qacha Dakhani in I. O. MSS., but I am not
sure what the clause, as given by them, means. No. 181 seems to have
bafatahaigi for 'assistance' (?). Two B. M. MSS. have apparently
bafatahai kapi, but Add. 26,215 has the Arabic ha, while Or. 3276
has the ordinary h, so that the words possibly mean 'the young of
the monkey' (kapi).
p. 166, l. 2. Husamu-d-din was married to Abu-l-fazl's sister,
Blochmann, 441.
p. 167, l. 16. The word rojh in brackets is wrong. The MSS. have
qara-quyragh and qara-quyragh. P. de Courteille gives quyrugh as
meaning a tail, so perhaps qara-quyrugh means a black-tailed sheep
or deer. See p. 129, l. 17, where the qara-quyrugh is said to be
the chikara.
p. 168, last line. The MSS. has habs-i-mazid, which does not
necessarily mean imprisonment for life.
p. 170, n. 2. For Akbar's wives read Jahangir's wives.
p. 172, l. 21 seq. Is this the story referred to by Hawkins (Purchas),
about Muqarrab having taken a Banian's daughter?
p. 177, note. For one-third of an inch read one and a third inches.
p. 183, l. 8. This is the annular eclipse entered in Dr. R. Schramm's
Tables, Sewell's Indian Calendar, as having occurred on 5th December,
1610, which corresponds to 28th Ramazan, 1019.
p. 185, n. 3. Persian text, p. 309, l. 11, has the phrase majra
girifta atash dadand, 'took aim and fired' (a cannon).
p. 188, l. 7 from foot. For Naziri, see Rieu, ii, 807b, and Blochmann,
579. He died in 1622 (1613).
p. 191, l. 10. For dhik (?) read dhik, i.e. adjutant bird.
p. 191, l. 8. Patal means 'red' or 'rose-coloured' in Sanskrit. Query
'red deer.'
p. 192, l. 2. Add year 1020.
p. 195, last line. The passage is rather obscure, but the meaning
seems to be that though formalities are not regarded by the wise,
yet weak persons (qawasir, which apparently is a plural of qasir),
regard externals as the means of paying the dues of friendship (and
so we must attend to them). Hence when at this auspicious time a
province which had gone out of my (`Abbas's) possession has been
settled by the exertions of angelic servants in accordance with
the hopes of well-wishers, I (`Abbas) have returned to the capital,
and have despatched Kamalu-d-din, etc.
p. 197, l. 7. For Khankhanan read Khan.
p. 197, l. 12. The I.O. MSS. have a different reading here. They say
nothing about three ratis. What they say is, "At this time I had made
some increase in the amounts of weights and measures. For instance,
I added one-fourth (siwa'i) to the weight of the muhrs and rupees." The
sih rati of text is a mistake for siwa'i.
p. 197, l. 12 from foot. I.O. MSS. have 'Sunday in Safar,' but they
wrongly have 1022.
p. 197, l. 9 from foot. Both I.O. MSS. have 'Neknahar' instead of
'in the interior.'
p. 198, l. 11. Or Lohgar.
p. 205, l. 14. I do not think that the translation 'should not force
Islam on anyone,' or the version in Elliot, vi, 325, 'Not to forcibly
impose Musulman burdens on anyone,' gives the full force of the
words taklif-i-Musalmani bar kasi nakunand. I think the reference
clearly is to circumcision, and that the words taklif-i-Musalmani
should be rendered 'the Muhammadan ceremonial.' This explains why the
injunction comes in immediately after the prohibitions against blinding
and mutilation. It has been said, and I believe with truth, that the
members of the Delhi royal family never were circumcised. Probably one
reason for this was that in many instances they had Hindu mothers. As
pointed out in Elliot, the passage is omitted in the Iqbal-nama. It
also does not occur in the version given in `Ali Muhammad's "History
of Gujarat," vol. i, p. 200 of lithograph.
p. 214, verse. For red read a river.
p. 216. See picture of a turkey in Havell's "Indian Sculpture,"
pp. 214-15.
p. 218, l. 10 from foot. About Shapur see Ma'asiru-l-umara, i, 180.
p. 224, n. 1. For infra read supra, pp. 27 and 30, note.
p. 229, ll. 9 and 14. For Patna read Tatta.
p. 229, note. For brother read brother's son.
p. 231, l. 14 from foot. For Nihalpur substitute Thalner as in the
MSS. The news of the death seems to have reached Agra very quickly.
p. 232, l. 1. Insert the word 'and' before 'allowed.'
p. 234, l. 2 from foot. The word translated 'cranes' is karwanak,
and probably means 'a little crane.' In Blochmann, 63, karwanak is
rendered by 'stone-curlew.'
p. 234, l. 5 from foot. The word seems to be kunjishk, 'sparrow,'
in the MSS., but probably it should be kunjak, 'a curiosity, a rarity.'
p. 235, l. 2. It is Thursday, the 28th, in the MSS., and instead of
'night' we should read 'eve.' The English date corresponding to 28th
Muharram is 10th March, 1613.
p. 237, l. 8. It is 1,000 in the MSS., and this is probably correct,
though B.M. MS. 1645 has changed the word for 1,000 into one for
100. The ordinary kaukab-i-tali` was 100 tolas in weight, see
p. 11. At p. 406 two kaukab-i-tali's are mentioned of 500 tolas
each. It is a mistake, I think, to regard the word muhr as always
implying gold. The ordinary kaukab-i-tali` was of silver, and these
large muhrs were no doubt also of silver. The note 1 to Elliott, vi,
355, is probably incorrect.
p. 237, l. 10. 'The feast went off well,' etc. The passage is obscure,
but probably the translation should be 'There was a splendid assemblage
(majis shigufta gasht), and after it was over I ordered that they
should arrange an illumination.' The words in text, p. 116, l. 3, are
hukm kardam kih asbab u ayin bar kunand. The MSS. have asbab-i-ayin
ra. No. 181 seems to have baz kunand, and so has B.M. MS. 1645, but
No. 305 has bar kunand, as in text. It may be that the meaning is that
Jahangir told the servants they might appropriate the decorations,
but I rather think the order was to make an illumination. It may also
simply mean that he ordered the decorations to be taken down. Baz
kunand ordinarily means 'to open out,' bar kunand 'to load.'
p. 237, l. 12. Delete 'the' before Muqarrab.
p. 237, note. I.O. MSS. seem to have zarin, 'golden'(?).
p. 241, l. 5 from foot. I.G., new ed., xvii, 309, speaks of a handsome
mosque in Mairtha having been founded by Akbar, but probably it is
this one of Shaikh Pir. Perhaps Shaikh Pir is the old beggar referred
to in Roe's Journal.
p. 247, l. 5 from foot. For chakri read jhakkar. It was not necessarily
a dust-storm.
p. 250, l. 6. The MSS. have Rup instead of Rawal, and so has Elliot,
vi, 335. They have 'hill country of Mewat,' as in text. They have
Chitor, and not Jaipur, as in Elliot, and they make (by error)
Jahangir speak of the year as the 10th, instead of the 8th. Instead
of 'have' at l. 12 we should read 'had,' and instead of 'from the
Rawal who was first known as Rawal,' they have, as also has Elliot,
'Rahab, who was the first to take the title of Rana.' Rahab is the
Rahup of Tod, who says he came to the throne in 1201 A.D.
p. 253, ll. 10 and 11. I cannot find the word pulta-bazi. My friend,
Mr. Irvine, suggests that we should read patta bazi. Patta means a
'foil,' or 'wooden sword,' and patta baz is given in Forbes as meaning
a 'fencer.' Paltha marna occurs in Forbes as meaning a 'peculiar
posture.' The yaganagi of l. 11 should be yakangagi, meaning 'one
body,' or 'one limb,' and corresponds to the yakhath of Blochmann,
252, both phrases meaning apparently 'that the fencer fights with
one hand,' that is, 'without using a shield.'
p. 260, l. 8. This I`tiqad is the father of Mumtaz-mahall, the wife
of Shah Jahan. He now became Asaf Khan, and apparently the title of
I`tiqad was transferred to his younger brother (or cousin?) Shahpur,
who was afterwards governor of Kashmir. See Ma'asir, i, 180. The
two previous Asaf Khans of the family are Ghiyasu-d-din of Qazwin
(Blochmann, 433), and Mirza Ja`far Beg, who was Ghiyasu-d-din's
nephew. The father of Nur-Jahan was Ghiyas Beg of Tihran (Blochmann,
508). Blochmann, in his Table, 512, has not mentioned Shahpur,
i.e. the I`tiqad who became governor of Kashmir.
p. 261, l. 17 from foot. For mother read mothers (i.e. stepmothers).
p. 261, l. 10 from foot. For nephews read nephew.
p. 278, l. 13. For named read namad, and it should be in italics.
p. 281, l. 2. The permission to beat his drums is explained by the
Iqbal-nama, p. 79, where it is said that he was permitted to beat
his drums in the capital, dar pay-i-takht.
p. 281, l. 6 from foot. This eclipse is noted in Dr. Schram's Tables
as occurring on 19th March, 1615.
p. 282, l. 10 from foot. Delete word 'Egyptian.'
p. 286, l. 6. For Frank read Venetian. Kar-i-Wanadik, as in MSS.
p. 288, l. 5. Chatur, instead of Tahayyur, in No. 305, and Bakhtar
(?) in No. 181.
p. 293. According to the Iqbal-nama, 80, Kunwar Karan, son of Rana
Amar Singh, became an officer of Jahangir, receiving the rank of 5,000
personal and horse. He was the first of the direct royal line of his
family to accept office.
p. 293, l. 2 from foot. No. 181 has 102 horses.
p. 294, n. 2. No. 181 has Rasht.
p. 300, l. 18. According to Vullers' Dict., i, 482, a tulcha is 96
grains or about half a tola. The Ghiyasu-l-loghat, however, says that
tulcha is merely the Persian form of the Hindustani tula. According to
the Burhan-i-qati' a tola is only 2 1/2 masha in Upper India. Generally
it is reckoned as 12 masha. According to Sir Thomas Roe 2 1/2 tolas
were equal to 1 ounce.
p. 317, MS. No. 181 has A.H. date 1025.
p. 321, l. 11. For several bits read some marten skins. See Tuzuk text,
p. 308, l. 3 from foot, and Vullers' Dict, ii, 6. The MS. No. 181
has sad dana-i-kish, 'one hundred marten skins.'
p. 321, l. 13 from foot. For transit dues read for keeping open the
Pass (rah-dari).
p. 321, n. 2. The words in I.O. MSS. seem to be igana begana, which
is perhaps a mere jingle on the word afghana, but may mean 'known,
unknown.' Jahangir puns on the name Qadam, which means 'a foot,
a pace.' The words occur again at p. 323.
p. 322, last line. Probably `aqiri is, or is derived from, `aqar, which
means a bird whose feathers were used for ornamentation. According
to P. de Courteille, Turki Dict., 384, `aqar is a heron.
p. 328, l. 13 from foot. For Shah Shaja`at read Shah Shuja`. He was
Shah Jahan's second son, and was born at Ajmir on the eve of Sunday,
and on 11th Tir. Apparently this corresponds to 24th June, 1616,
which is the date of birth mentioned by Sir Thomas Roe. Beale's date
of 12th May is wrong.
p. 332, l. 6 from foot. Here the word tulcha is used again, and
apparently as meaning the same thing as tola; 6,514 tulchas or tolas
would be about 82 sirs, or over 2 maunds and about 12 stone. Next year
Sir Thomas Roe saw Jahangir weighed, and he understood that his weight
was 9,000 rupees. If so, his weight would appear to have considerably
increased during the twelve months. Perhaps we should read 8,514,
instead of 6,514 tulchas. Hasht (8) and shash (6) are often confounded.
p. 341, l. 8 from foot. For times read days, the word ruz (days)
having been omitted from the text.
p. 344, n. 1. Apparently we should read Toda. The difference between
it and Nauda is, in Persian writing, only one dot. Toda is mentioned
by Roe as the place where he overtook Jahangir, and the stages given
by him come to 21 kos, counting from Ramsar, and this agrees very
nearly with Jahangir's stages from the same place.
p. 351, l. 15 from foot. The MS. No. 181 has the word gaz twice,
and makes the pahna'i, or width, 175 1/2 gaz (yards).
p. 351, last line. For Bulghari read Pulkhari.
p. 352, l. 1. Delete the words 'of Tir.' The month was Bahman,
corresponding to January-February, 1617, and 23rd Bahman would be
about 1st February. In Sayyid Ahmad's edition the word Tir is a
mistake for niz, 'also,' the meaning being that the 23rd was a halt
as well as the 22nd.
p. 353, l. 2. Ghaznin Khan is mentioned by Finch under the name of
Gidney Khan, and he is said to have been originally a Hindu. But this
seems doubtful, as his father's name is given in the Mir'at-i-Ahmadi
as Malik Khanji Afghan. See also Bayley's "Gujarat," p. 15. Jalor is
now in Jodhpur. It is described by Finch.
p. 353, l. 2. This seems to be the case of matricide mentioned in
Terry's "Voyage," p. 362, of ed. of 1777. His statement that it
occurred at Ahmadabad is presumably an oversight. Terry says the
matricide was put to death by being bitten by two snakes. See also
Irvine's "Manucci," iv, 422. Apparently the punishment recorded by
Jahangir took place on the 4th February, for Sir Thomas Roe mentions
that they reached Kaliyadaha, the next stage, on 6th February. The bi
in biyasa should be deleted. Jalaur, or Jalor, is in Jodhpur (I.G.,
xiv, 29). It used to be in Ajmir. It is not quite clear if Terry was
with Roe at Kaliyadaha, but if not he was with him at Ujjain. The
execution may have taken place there.
p. 355, l. 16. For 'from the city of Ujjain,' etc., read 'to a rural
spot near the city of Ujjain.'
p. 360, l. 22. For 128 1/4 cubits read 28 1/4 cubits. I.O. MS. 181
has 28 1/4 yards. The printed text of Sayyid Ahmad has 128 1/4 cubits.
p. 362, l. 8 from foot. Delete (Balchha?).
p. 373, l. 11 seq. This I`tiqad was the younger brother or perhaps
cousin of Asaf Khan, the brother of Nur-Jahan. He was also known as
Shahpur. See Ma'asiru-l-umara, i, 180.
p. 375, n. 2. Read two diamonds.
p. 406, n. 3. Dikhtan or Daikhtan seems right. It is so in both the
I.O. MSS.
p. 406, l. 11 from foot. These muhrs were probably of silver, and were
called muhrs because they were medals rather than coins. Dr. Kehr
has given an account of a large muhr which is now apparently in
Dresden. See also Richardson's Dict., article Sikka.
p. 407, l. 4. This is Juna Khan, son of Ghiyasu-d-din Tughluq. He
ascended the throne in 1325 under the title of Muhammad bin Tughluq.
p. 407, l. 15. This is the prince known as Nasiru-d-din. He ascended
the throne as Muhammad bin Firuz in 1387, and again in 1390.
p. 413, ll. 11 and 3 from foot. I.O. MSS. show that Sar-faraz should
be Sarafraz; apparently his present was 'seven bullock-carts' (haft
ras gaw bahal) and not two bullocks.
p. 417, n. 2. Cancel note. Narangsar seems right.
p. 417, l. 2 from foot. The words are dah bist wazn muhr u rupiya
ma`mul. Elliot, p. 354, renders this 'ten and twenty times heavier
than the current gold muhr and rupee.'
p. 418, l. 10. See n. 2 in Elliot, vi, 355. Apparently Jahangir
means that he was the first person to coin double muhrs and double
rupees. There is an account of tankas in the Bahar-i-`Ajam, 261,
col 2, p. 421, n. 2. But it is 27 in I.O. MSS. 113, p. 423, l. 14. A
tassu is more than a finger-breadth, it is the 1/24 of a gaz or yard,
and should be about 1 1/3 inches.
p. 437. I am indebted to my friend Dr. Hoernle for the explanation
of the names of the two sects of Sewras. They should be Tapa and
Kharatara. Man Singh's name in religion was Jin-simha. See Epigraphia
Indica, i, 37, and Ind. Antiquary, xi, 250. Man Singh died at Mairtha
(in Jodhpur) according to the Jain books, in the beginning of 1618. The
head of the Tapa sect in Jahangir's time was Vijayasena. There is an
elaborate paper on the Jains of Gujarat and Marwar by Colonel Miles
in the Transactions R.A.S., iii, pp. 335-71.
p. 442, l. 8. There is no previous reference to the outbreak of plague
in Kashmir, though there is one to its occurrence in the Panjab. There
is an interesting account of the plague in Khafi Khan, i, 286-8,
in which the description is carried down to the time of Aurangzib.