[173] The ʿAbbāsī is also the name of a dress. The MSS. have fourteen, instead of four, horses. Apparently the presents were Zambil’s own offering, not that of his master. See below. [↑]
[174] Mansab-i-kabak. Perhaps we should read katak, and regard the increase as made to the office of guarding the palace. It is katak, apparently, in I.O. MSS. It may, however, be Kang or Gang and a man’s name. [↑]
[175] Apparently the translator of the Rājataranginī. [↑]
[176] Doubtless the Gwalior in the Panjab. [↑]
[177] Nūr Jahān’s daughter by S͟hīr-afgan. The date of the asking is given in the text as the third, but should be the 30th, as in the I.O. MSS. [↑]
[179] The Iqbāl-nāma, 176, has “ten crores.” [↑]
[180] The MSS. have 5,000. The word for “gunners” is tūpchī. [↑]
[181] The MSS., instead of Naus͟hahr, have sawād-i-s͟hahr, “the environs of the city” (cf. Lahore?). [↑]
[182] It was in the vicinity of Lahore. Akbar-nāma, III. 569. [↑]