[66] The name seems to be wrong. Jahāngīr is evidently copying from the Āyīn, and the rivers mentioned there (Jarrett, ii, 195) are the Narbada, Sipra, Kālīsindh, Betwa, and the Kodī (or Godī). [↑]
[67] 29,668 (Jarrett, ii. 198). [↑]
[68] The MSS. also have sweet pomegranates from Yezd, and sub-acid (may-k͟hwus͟h) ones from Farāh, and pears from Badakhshan (see Elliot, vi, 348). [↑]
[69] The MSS. have k͟hāṣṣa-i-s͟harīfa. [↑]
[70] Qu. komla? Instead of qābiltar the MSS. have māʾiltar. [↑]
[71] Pahnāʾī. Its area or shade. Perhaps the 175½ are yards, not cubits. [↑]
[72] Evidently the four-horned antelope, the Tetracerus quadricornis of Blanford, p. 520, and which has the Hindustani name of doda. Blanford describes its colour as dull pale brown. “The posterior horns are much larger than the anterior ones, which are situated between the orbits and are often mere knobs. It is the only Indian representative of the duikarbok of Africa. Another Indian name is chausingha. In jungle this species and the hog-deer may easily be mistaken the one for the other. It is not gregarious, and moves with a peculiar jerky action.” The resemblance between the four-horned antelope and the hog-deer—the kūtāh pāycha or short-legged deer of Bābar and Jahāngīr—may account for Blanford’s giving doda as a native name for the hog-deer (Cervus porcinus). For Bābar’s description of the kūtāh pāya or pāycha see Erskine, p. 317. Gladwin in his history of Jahāngīr writes the native name as Dirdhayan. [↑]
[74] Text, k͟hurmā, a date, but evidently the k͟hurmā-i-Hind or the tamarind, i.e. ‘the palm of India,’ is meant (see Bābar’s Mem., Erskine, p. 324). I do not understand the measurements. The word yak, ‘one,’ before the word s͟hāk͟h is not in the MSS. and is, I think, wrong. I think the 16 gaz and 15½ gaz are the lengths of the two branches, and that the measurements 2½ and 2¾ gaz refer to the length and circumference of the two branches at the place when they started from the trunk and before they put out leaves. [↑]