[91] The reading in the lithograph seems wrong; the MSS. have az bāzīcha, ‘in jest.’ [↑]
[92] Abū-l-faẓl is more moderate; he says (Blochmann, p. 116) that Akbar killed 1,019 animals with Sangrām. [↑]
[93] Blochmann says, of Mashhad, p. 381. [↑]
[94] The furriery. See Blochmann, pp. 87 n. and 616. Kurk means ‘fur’ in Turki. [↑]
[95] The word yātish is omitted in text, but occurs in the MSS. [↑]
[96] Ḥājī Koka was sister of Saʿādat Yār Koka (Akbar-nāma, iii, 656). According to Price this passage refers to a widows’ fund. [↑]
[97] This was one of Akbar’s regulations (Blochmann p. 142). The amount was ten dams on each muhr of the horse’s value, calculated on an increase of 50 per cent. See also Price, p. 61. [↑]
[98] This passage is not clear, but the peculiarity to which attention is drawn seems rather the prominent forehead than the oozing fluid. Price (p. 62) has a fuller account of this elephant. [↑]
[99] See Blochmann, pp. 176, 452, and the very full account of him in the Maʾās̤ir, iii, 285. Amul is an old city south of the Caspian and west of Astrabad. [↑]
[100] She was Akbar’s first and principal wife, but bore him no children. She long survived him. [↑]