[1704] Tramontana, n. of Hindū-kush. For particulars about the dynasties mentioned by Bābur see Stanley Lane-Poole’s Muḥammadan Dynasties.
[1705] Maḥmūd of Ghaznī, a Turk by race, d. 1030 AD. (421 AH.).
[1706] known as Muḥ. Ghūrī, d. 1206 AD. (602 AH.).
[1707] sūrūbtūrlār, lit. drove them like sheep (cf. f. 154b).
[1708] khūd, itself, not Bābur’s only Hibernianism.
[1709] “This is an excellent history of the Musalmān world down to the time of Sl. Nāṣir of Dihlī A.D. 1252. It was written by Abū ‘Umar Minḥāj al Jūrjānī. See Stewart’s catalogue of Tipoo’s Library, p. 7” (Erskine). It has been translated by Raverty.
[1710] bargustwān-wār; Erskine, cataphract horse.
[1711] The numerous instances of the word pādshāh in this part of the Bābur-nāma imply no such distinction as attaches to the title Emperor by which it is frequently translated (Index s.n. pādshāh).
[1712] d. 1500 AD. (905 AH.).
[1713] d. 1388 AD. (790 AH.).