[1474] yāqīsh-līq qūl, an unusual phrase.
[1475] var. Karmān, Kurmāh, Karmās. M. de C. read Kīr-mās, the impenetrable. The forms would give Garm-ās, hot embers.
[1476] balafré; marked on the face; of a horse, starred.
[1477] Raverty’s Notes (p. 457) give a full account of this valley; in it are the head-waters of the Tochī and the Zurmut stream; and in it R. locates Rustam’s ancient Zābul.
[1478] It is on the Kābul side of the Gīrdīz-pass and stands on the Luhugūr-water (Logar).
[1479] f. 143.
[1480] At this point of the text there occurs in the Elph. MS. (f. 195b) a note, manifestly copied from one marginal in an archetype, which states that what follows is copied from Bābur’s own MS. The note (and others) can be seen in JRAS 1905 p. 754 et seq.
[1481] Masson, iii, 145.
[1482] A qūlāch is from finger-tip to finger-tip of the outstretched arms (Zenker p. 720 and Méms. ii, 98).
[1483] Neither interne is said to have died!