[64] Taken from the Āyīn, see Jarrett, II. 353. There they are called brahmans, but this seems to be an error of the Bib. Ind. text. Gladwin has “Rishi.” The Rīs͟hīs were Muhammadans. See Jarrett, II. 359, where mention is made of Bābā Zainu-d-dīn Rīs͟hī. See also Colonel Newall’s paper on the Rīs͟hīs or Hermits of Kashmir, A.S.B.J., 1870, p. 265. [↑]
[65] Text Bārān. MSS. have Mārān, and Eastwick has Koh-i-Mahran. He calls it an isolated hill 250 feet high. It is on the north outskirts of the city. See also Lawrence, 184, and n. 2, and Stein, 147–48. [↑]
[66] The Dal Lake is 3.87 miles long and 2.58 broad, the Ānchar Dal is 3.51 miles long and 2.15 broad. Lawrence, 20. [↑]
[67] MSS. have kīl, and so has the Iqbāl-nāma. Kīl is given in Lawrence, 114, as the Kashmir name for the ibex. [↑]
[69] This is the Ilāhī gaz. [↑]
[70] Blochmann, 252, and note. [↑]
[71] So called because in S͟hujāʿ’s horoscope. [↑]
[72] A village called ʿAis͟h-maqām is mentioned in Jarrett, II. 359, n. 1, but it is probably not the ʿAis͟hābād here mentioned, for ʿAis͟h-maqām was on the Lidar and a long way S.S.E. Srinagar. [↑]
[73] S͟higūfa-i-sad-barg (“the blossoms of the hundred-leaved rose”?). [↑]