[176] The text has bā by mistake for yā. [↑]
[177] ʿaurāt-i-mustaḥaqqa. Perhaps “pensioned women.” [↑]
[178] These are the opening lines of Jāmī’s Yūsuf and Zulaik͟hā (note by Mr. Rogers). [↑]
[179] Salīm Chis͟htī died on 29 Ramaẓān 979, or February 15, 1572. Jahāngīr was born on 17 Rabīʿ 1st, 977; and so he would be about two years and seven months old at the time of Salīm’s death. See Beale and K͟hazīnatu-l-asfiyā, I. p. 435. [↑]
[180] The conjunction wa in text, p. 262, line 16, is a mistake. [↑]
[181] This is the Buland Darwāza. It was built many years after the mosque. For an account of it, see Mr. Edmund Smith’s Fatḥpūr Sīkrī. The gateway is there said to be 134 feet high from the pavement and 176 feet from the roadway. The thirty-two steps mentioned in text must be those from the roadway to the gate. There are two flights of steps, and the total number, up to the top, is 123. The quadrangle or court is stated by Keene to be 433 feet by 366. Another statement (in the Archæological Report) is 438–9 by 359–10 feet. Salīm’s tomb was erected in 1581 (988). It is 47 feet 11 inches each way. [↑]
[182] 4½, Iqbāl-nāma, 124. [↑]
[183] Text aiwān, but should be alwān, “coloured.” See Iqbāl-nāma, 124. [↑]
[184] Finch says: “Under the courtyard is a good tank of excellent water.” He also speaks of the lake and of its being covered with the singāra (Trapa bicornis). [↑]
[185] That is, Bāyazīd, a grandson of the saint. Ikrām K. is another name for Hūs͟hang. His mother was Abū-l-Faẓl’s sister. According to the Maʾās̤ir, I. 120, he was a tyrant. According to local tradition, Qut̤bu-d-dīn is buried in Bardwān near Shīr-afgan. [↑]