[436] Tarikh-i-Rashidi, p. 245.
[437] Cf. Tarikh-i-Rashidi, p. 259. Cf. also Veliaminof-Zernof (p. 353), who bases his statements on the `Abdullah Nāmé of Hāfiz ibn Tānish. Copies of this valuable work are very scarce. Its scope and contents have been described (from a copy in the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg) by M. Veliaminof-Zernof. See Mélanges Asiatiques de St. Petersburg, vol. iii. p. 258 et seq.
[438] “The Seven Wells.” V.-Zernof reads Yati Kurūk, which might mean “the Seven Walls.” The former reading seems more probable.
[439] On the locality of this place, cf. Vambéry’s Bokhara, p. 257.
[440] Cf. Tarikh-i-Rashidi, p. 260.
[441] Probably to be identified with Panjakand, in the Zarafshān valley, forty miles east of Samarkand.
[442] Some distance north of Bokhārā.
[443] Cf. Tarikh-i-Rashidi, p. 261. Howorth (ii. 713) says `Ubaydullah was in this fort.
[444] Mirza Haydar does hesitate to speak thus of the fortunes of his own cousin Bāber, who had in his opinion sold himself to the heretic Persians.
[445] As Grigorieff suggested, the name Abū-l-Khayride would fit this dynasty far better than that of Shaybānide.