[1] Compare Farishtah, II. 355–356. After his death Muhammad was known as Khudáigán-i-Shahíd, Our Lord the Martyr, according to the custom of the Sultáns of Dehli, all of whom had three names, their family name, their throne name, and their after-death name whose letters contain the date of the monarch’s decease. Thus the emperor Akbar’s after-death title is Ársh Áshiáni, The Holder of the Heavenly Throne; the emperor Jehángír’s is Jannat Makáni, The Dweller in Heaven; the emperor Sháh Jehán’s is Firdaus Makáni, He Whose Home is Paradise; and the emperor Aurangzíb’s is Khuld Makáni, The Occupier of the Eternal Residence. Similarly the after-death title of Muzaffar Sháh, Tátár Khán’s father, is Khûdáigán-i-Kabir, The Great Lord. [↑]
[2] Dhár (north latitude 22° 35′; east longitude 75° 20′), the capital of the state of Dhár thirty-three miles west of Mhow in Central India. [↑]
[3] The Tabakát-i-Akbari has Kanthkot a dependency of Kachh. This is probably correct. [↑]
[4] The date is doubtful: Farishtah (II. 630) gives a.d. 1412, the Áin-i-Akbari (Blochman’s Edition, I. 507) a.d. 1411. [↑]
[5] Four Áhmeds who had never missed the afternoon prayer helped to build Áhmedábád: Saint Sheikh Áhmed Khattu, Sultán Áhmed, Sheikh Áhmed, and Mulla Áhmed. Compare Bombay Gazetteer, IV. 249 note 5. [↑]
[6] Called in the Tabakát-i-Akbari the Rája of Mandal. [↑]
[7] Sidhpur (north latitude 23° 50′; east longitude 72° 20′), on the Sarasvatí, fifty-eight miles north of Áhmedábád. [↑]
[8] Chámpáner (north latitude 22° 30′; east longitude 73° 30′) in the British district of the Panch Maháls, from a.d. 1483 to a.d. 1560 the chief city of Gujarát, now in ruins. [↑]
[9] Modása (north latitude 23° 27′; east longitude 73° 21′), fifty miles north-east of Áhmedábád. [↑]