[193] But there was such a ceremony a few days before (see p. 323 of text). [↑]
[194] For tānk see Blochmann, 16 n. The Iqbāl-nāma, 178, has “twelve mis̤qāls.” [↑]
[195] For the Nask͟h character see Blochmann, 99–100, and for the Nastaʿlīq, 101. See also the elaborate article on Writing in Hughes’ Dictionary of Islam. [↑]
[196] By S͟hāh-i-Wilāyat is meant the Caliph ʿAlī b. Abī T̤ālib. [↑]
[197] The Houshabarchan of Hawkins. [↑]
[198] Mahāban, five or six miles from Mathura. [↑]
[199] They had made an istiqbāl, or visit of welcome, from Agra. [↑]
[200] This was Bābar’s garden. It was on the opposite side of the Jumna to Agra. [↑]
[201] So in text, but two (dū) must be a mistake for “ten,” as 2 months, 2 days = 62, and the marches and halts 49 + 21 amount to 70, or 8 more. It is 10 in I.O. MSS. [↑]
[202] The būdna, or bodna, is a species of quail. See Bābar’s Memoirs, Erskine, p. 320, where it is spelt budinah. There is a description in the Āyīn, Blochmann, 296, of the mode of catching them. [↑]