[30] Sirohi (north latitude 24° 59′; east longitude 72° 56′), the capital of the principality of the same name in the province of Ajmír. [↑]
[31] Ábu (north latitude 24° 45′; east longitude 72° 49′) in the state of Sirohi. [↑]
[32] The Rája is called Kṛishṇa Kishan or Kánh Devra. Ábu is still held by the Sirohi Devrás. [↑]
[33] Mandisor (north latitude 24° 4′; east longitude 75° 9′), the chief town of a district of the same name in the province of Málwa. [↑]
[34] Persian Text, Mirăt-i-Sikandari, 75–76. [↑]
[35] The Portuguese merchant and traveller Barbosa (a.d. 1511–1514) gives the following details of Mahmúd Begada’s cavalry: The Moors and Gentiles of this kingdom are bold riders, mounted on horses bred in the country, for it has a wonderful quantity. They ride on small saddles and use whips. Their arms are very thick round shields edged with silk; each man has two swords, a dagger, and a Turkish bow with very good arrows. Some of them carry maces, and many of them coats-of-mail, and others tunics quilted with cotton. The horses have housings and steel headpieces, and so they fight very well and are light in their movements. The Moorish horsemen are white and of many countries, Turks and Mamelukes, military slaves from Georgia Circassia and Mingrelia, Arabs Persians Khorásánis Turkomans, men from the great kingdom of Dehli, and others born in the country itself. Their pay is good, and they receive it regularly. They are well dressed with very rich stuffs of gold silk cotton and goat’s wool, and all wear caps on their heads, and their clothes long, such as morisco shirts and drawers, and leggings to the knee of good thick leather worked with gold knots and embroidery, and their swords richly ornamented with gold and silver are borne in their girdles or in the hands of their pages. Their women are very white and pretty: also very richly decked out. They live well and spend much money. Stanley’s Barbosa, 55–56. [↑]
[36] Mahmúd’s favourite trees were the mango ámbo Mangifera indica, ráen Mimusops hexandra, jámbu Eugenia jambolana, gúlar Ficus glomerata, tamarind ámli Tamarindus indica, and the shrubby phyllanthus áonla Emblica officinalis. [↑]
[37] Burhánpur (north latitude 21° 18′; east longitude 76° 20′), under the Musalmáns the capital of Khándesh, now within the limits of the Berárs. [↑]
[38] Gondwána, a large hilly tract lying between north latitude 19° 50′ and 24° 30′ and east longitude 77° 38′ and 87° 20′. [↑]
[39] The Mirăt-i-Sikandari (Persian Text, page 89) gives the hill fort of Bárudar. The Persian r may be a miswritten g and the d a mistake for w that is Baguwar or Baguwarah. The seaport Dûn may be Dungri hill six miles from the coast. But Dûn for Dáhánu a well-known port in north Thána is perhaps more likely. Farishtah (Briggs, IV. 51) gives Bavur for Baru and Dura for Dûn. Compare Tabakát-i-Akbari in Bayley’s Gujarát, page 178 note 2. [↑]