[475] `Abd ul-Kerīm assures us that this prince was the Plato of the century, a man full of wisdom and knowledge (p. 135).
[476] `Abd ul-Kerīm tells us that the number of families then deported was 17,000, which would give a total of about 85,000 individuals (p. 142).
[477] Vambéry, History of Bokhara, p. 354.
[478] `Abd ul-Kerīm (p. 151) gives the date as Friday, 14th Rajab A.H. 1214. Vambéry is apparently in error in placing it as 1802 (p. 360).
[479] P. 151.
[480] See Meyendorff’s Voyage d’Orenbourg à Boukhara en 1820, p. 281; Bokhara: its Amir and People, by Khanikoff, p. 248; Vambéry, History of Bokhara, p. 360.
[481] Amīr Haydar was the first of the present dynasty to assume the title of Pādishāh.
[482] `Abd ul-Kerīm, pp. 154–156. Vambéry gives a different version (History of Bokhara, p. 462), but we prefer to follow the native chronicler, who held high diplomatic posts in Bokhārā at the commencement of the century, and may be presumed to have had personal knowledge of the events which he records (see M. Charles Schefer’s Introduction to his Chronicle, p. iii).
[483] `Abd ul-Kerīm, pp. 163, 164.
[484] “He always has four legitimate wives: when he wishes to espouse a new wife he divorces one of her predecessors, giving her a house and pension corresponding with her condition. Every month he receives a young virgin, either as wife or slave. He marries the slaves who have not given him children, either to priests or soldiers” (`Abd ul-Kerīm, p. 163).