[163] MSS. have “is very noble.” [↑]
[164] Pigeon-fancier. He belonged to Herat, and is mentioned in Blochmann, 302. [↑]
[165] Text wrongly has 1031. It should be 1030, as in the Iqbāl-nāma, 171. [↑]
[166] The couplet is given in Iqbāl-nāma, 171, with some verbal differences. [↑]
[168] Jauhar Mal is mentioned at p. 310. Perhaps he was not Sūraj Mal, but it looks as if he was the same person. Cf. corresponding passage in Iqbāl-nāma, 173, where he is called Sūraj Mal. [↑]
[170] Rāja Bikramājīt. See ante, p. 310. [↑]
[171] Text wrongly has g͟halla grain, instead of ʿalafhā fodder, grasses, etc. See MSS. and Iqbāl-nāma, 174. [↑]
[172] Text wrongly has 1031, but it is 1031 in the MSS. and in Elliot, VI., 375. See, however, Elliot, VI. 378, and text, 326, which shew that the 16th year began in 1030. [↑]