[473] āb-duzd; de C. i, 144, prise d’eau.
[474] This simile seems the fruit of experience in Hindūstān. See f. 333, concerning Chānderi.
[475] These two Mughūls rebelled in 914 AH. with Sl. Qulī Chūnāq (T.R. s.n.).
[476] awīdī. The head of Captain Dow, fractured at Chunār by a stone flung at it, was trepanned (Saiyār-i-muta‘akhirīn, p. 577 and Irvine l .c. p. 283). Yār-‘alī was alive in 910 AH. He seems to be the father of the great Bairām Khān-i-khānān of Akbar’s reign.
[477] chasht-gāh; midway between sunrise and noon.
[478] t̤aurī; because providing prisoners for exchange.
[479] shakh tūtūlūr īdī, perhaps a palisade.
[480] i.e. from Ḥiṣār where he had placed him in 903 AH.
[481] qūba yūzlūq (f. 6b and note 4). The Turkmān features would be a maternal inheritance.
[482] He is “Saifī Maulānā ‘Arūzī” of Rieu’s Pers. Cat. p. 525. Cf. Ḥ.S. ii, 341. His book, ‘Arūz-i-saifī has been translated by Blochmann and by Ranking.