[153] Text calls them brothers, but the MSS. show that birādar is a mistake for barābar, “equally.” [↑]
[154] The MSS. add: “He was a good youth (jawān) and without guile.” [↑]
[155] Āb-i-ḥayāt, “water of life,” a name given by Akbar to his āb-dār-k͟hāna, or supply of drinking-water, etc. See Blochmann, 51. [↑]
[156] Text wrongly has Thaṭṭa. [↑]
[157] Elliott, VI. 376. Apparently Satī was not practised by burning, but by burying. [↑]
[158] Bisyār bihtar, MS., 181. [↑]
[159] Girjhāk is said to be the Hindu name for Jalālpūr, and the probable site of Bukephala, Jarrett, II. 324. Makhiyāla is also mentioned there. It seems that Mūkhyāla is the famous Mānikiyāla, where the Buddhist tope is which was first described by Elphinstone. Abū-l-Faẓl says in the Āyīn that it was a place of worship. See I.G., new ed., XVII. 182. [↑]
[160] Mountain-sheep. Apparently three rings were made. [↑]
[161] The I.O. MSS. add here 76 head of mārk͟hwur, etc., were taken. [↑]
[162] Perhaps the reference is to the tomb he formerly put up over a favourite deer. [↑]