[185] Elphinstone, Hist. of India, vol. ii. pp. 229-301 and note, where the legend of the queen firing silver balls is given on the authority of Xāfī Xān. Elliot, op. cit. vi. 99-101.
[186] The History of the Late Revolution of the Empire of the Great Mogul, Lond. 1671, pp. 106-131. See also Elliot, op. cit. vol. vii. pp. 220-224, and Elphinstone, op. cit. vol. ii. p. 425 seq., where a slightly different account of the battle is given.
[187] Letter to Melchior Meyr, Dec. 25, 1836, cited by C. Beyer in Nachgelassene Ged. Fr. Rückerts. Wien, 1877, pp. 210, 211.
[188] Koch, Der Deutsche Brahmane, Breslau (Deutsche Bücherei, Serie iv. Heft 23), p. 22.
[189] Ibid. pp. 18-22. For Rūmī's influence see esp. in vol. viii. of the edition cited, pp. 544. 7, 566. 74 et al.
[190] In Rāmāy. i. 45, where the story of their origin is briefly given, we read that sixty kōtis, i.e. 600,000,000 (a kōti being 10,000,000), came forth from the sea, not reckoning their numberless female attendants.
[191] Schack, Ein halbes Jahrhundert, Stuttg. Berl. Wien, 1894, vol. ii. p. 41. See also Koch, op. cit. pp. 11-13; Rud. Gottschall, Fried. Rückert in Portraits u. Studien, Leipz. 1870, vol. i. pp. 163-166; Rich. Meyer, Gesch. der Litt. des 19 Jahrh. Berl. 1890, p. 56.