[13] Thursday night or Friday eve is what is meant. [↑]
[15] King David was said to be a maker of cuirasses. [↑]
[16] Yamānī. Elliot has almāsī (adamant-like). [↑]
[17] See Blochmann’s translation and remarks in Proceedings A.S.B. for 1869, p. 167. It is there stated that the date of the fall of the meteorite was Friday, April 10, 1621, O.S., and that the weight would be nearly 5.271 pounds troy. [↑]
[18] A widow of Bāqī Muḥammad. [↑]
[20] Elliot, VI. 379, has “in sight of the fort.” Perhaps the meaning is that the villages were in the jurisdiction of the fort. [↑]
[21] The Iqbāl-nāma, 181, has “fourteen.” [↑]
[22] The account of S͟hāh Jahān’s spirited attack on the Deccanis is in some places rather obscurely worded, and the printed edition is not always correct. Help can be obtained from the Iqbāl-nāma, 181, etc., and from Elliot, VI. 379. The text has firār, “flight,” and this has been followed by Elliot, who has “on their approach the rebels took to flight, and removed to a distance from Burhanpur.” But the true reading, as shown by the Iqbāl-nāma, is qarār, “firmness,” not firār, and the words are bar daur-i-s͟hahr, “round the city,” not bar dūr, “far from.” The rebels were, as the Iqbāl-nāma states, “in the environs of the city,” “dar sawād-i-s͟hahr,” but apparently not in such force as to prevent S͟hāh Jahān’s sazāwuls—i.e., his apparitors and summoners—from going into the city and bringing out recruits. [↑]