[1434] i.e. through the Indus.
[1435] Perhaps this aīkī-sū-ārāsī (miyān-dū-āb) was the angle made by the Indus itself below Atak; perhaps one made by the Indus and an affluent.
[1436] ma’jūnī nāklīkī, presumably under the tranquillity induced by the drug.
[1437] massadus, the six sides of the world, i.e. all sides.
[1438] This is the name of one of the five champions defeated by Bābur in single combat in 914 AH. (Translator’s Note s.a. 914 AH.).
[1439] f. 145b.
[1440] Humāyūn was 12, Kāmrān younger; one surmises that Bābur would have walked under the same circumstances.
[1441] ṣabuḥī, the morning-draught. In 1623 AD. Pietro della Vallé took a ṣabuḥī with Mr. Thomas Rastel, the head of the merchants of Surat, which was of hot spiced wine and sipped in the mornings to comfort the stomach (Hakluyt ed. p. 20).
[1442] f. 128 and note.
[1443] Anglicé, in the night preceding Tuesday.