[183] But the next page of text records another feast of the lunar weighment. Can it be that the lunar weighment refers to Nūr Jahān’s birthday, not to Jahāngīr’s? The 17th here mentioned is the 17th of the solar month of Dai, and corresponded to about December 28, 1620. In the following page (324) we are told that the lunar weighment took place on 30 Bahman, corresponding to 25 Rabīʿu-l-awwal—i.e., February 8, 1621: Jahāngīr’s birthday was on Rabīʿu-l-awwal 17, so the anniversary fell this year on 22 Bahman. Consequently, if he celebrated it, as stated on p. 323, on 17 Dai, he did so more than a month too soon! Evidently there is a mistake somewhere. [↑]
[184] This place is mentioned again in the account of the 16th year, p. 338. It evidently received its name from Nūr Jahān. [↑]
[185] Akbarpūr, twelve miles N.W. Mathurā. J. Sarkar’s India of Aurangzeb, 171. [↑]
[186] That is, of Chāch in Transoxiana, but according to I.O. MS. 181, the word is K͟hāfī—i.e., from K͟hāf or K͟hwāf. [↑]
[187] Ninety-one rubies is surely a mistake. The Iqbāl-nāma, 177, only speaks of one. It is, however, 91 yāqūt in I.O. MS., 181. [↑]
[188] This is the Armenian of whom so much is said by Father Botelho and other missionaries. It is mentioned in M. Wāris̤’s continuation of the Pādis͟hāh-nāma, p. 392, of B.M. MS., that Ẕū-l-Qarnain Farangī came from Bengal and presented poems which he had composed on S͟hāh Jahān’s name, and got a present of Rs. 4,000. He it was, probably, who entertained Coryat. The passage in the text seems to show that Akbar had an Armenian wife. [↑]
[189] He is mentioned in some MSS. of the Akbar-nāma, vol. III., as taking part in the religious discussions. [↑]
[190] Probably this is the Laʿl Beg who wrote a book about the Naqs͟hbandī order. See Maʾās̤iru-l-Umarā, II., 382. [↑]
[191] The Iqbāl-nāma has “42 eunuchs.” [↑]
[192] The MSS. have 40 cocks, 12 buffaloes, and 7 buffalo-horns. The text also has shāk͟h, horns, but this has been taken as a pleonasm. [↑]