[1414] This rain is too early for the s.w. monsoon; it was probably a severe fall of spring rain, which prevails at this season or rather earlier, and extends over all the west of Asia (Erskine).
[1415] az ghīna shor sū. Streams rising in the Salt-range become brackish on reaching its skirts (G. of I.).
[1416] Here this will be the fermented juice of rice or of the date-palm.
[1417] Rauḥ is sometimes the name of a musical note.
[1418] a platform, with or without a chamber above it, and supported on four posts.
[1419] so-written in the MSS. Cf. Raverty’s Notes and G. of I.
[1420] Anglicé, cousins on the father’s side.
[1421] The G. of I. describes it.
[1422] Elph. MS. f. 183b, manṣūb; Ḥai. MS. and 2nd W.-i-B. bīsūt. The holder might be Bābā-i-kābulī of f. 225.
[1423] The 1st Pers. trs. (I.O. 215 f. 188b) and Kehr’s MS. [Ilminsky p. 293] attribute Hātī’s last-recorded acts to Bābur himself. The two mistaken sources err together elsewhere. M. de Courteille corrects the defect (ii, 67).