[48] Ganwārān u muzāriʿān. [↑]
[49] Text ba s͟hukr u s͟hukūh, but the Iqbāl-nāma, 213, has ba-s͟hakwa, “with complaints,” and this must be correct. ʿAbdu-llah indulged in abuse of his lord and master, k͟hudā u k͟hudāwand-i-k͟hwīs͟h—i.e., Jahāngīr. [↑]
[50] Cf. Iqbāl-nāma, 213–214. [↑]
[51] A proverbial expression. It is quoted by Niz̤āmu-d-dīn in the T̤abaqāt. [↑]
[52] ʿAlī Rāy was ruler of Little Tibet (Baltistan). Jahāngīr had married his daughter. Blochmann, 310, and Akbar-nāma, III. 603. The marriage took place in A.H. 1000 (1592). [↑]
[54] Hādī was Hārūnu-r-Ras͟hīd’s elder brother. [↑]
[55] Text mulka. Perhaps the word may be malka-i-ān, “possession of it”—i.e., possession of such knowledge. The MSS. have ān after malka. [↑]
[56] Text hanaq. But the MSS. have merely ḥaqq, and it is said in the dictionaries that there is a bird called the ḥaqq. [↑]
[57] This corrects a previous statement to the effect that the black and red bustards were two species. [↑]