[6] According to the Áin-i-Akbari (Blochmann, I. 325) the province of Gujarát over which the Kokaltásh was placed did not pass further south than the river Mahi. [↑]
[7] Tuzuki Jehángíri or Jehángír’s Memoirs, Pers. Text, Sayad Áhmed Khán’s Edition page 20. For Akbar’s march compare Tabakát-i-Akbari in Elliot, V. 365 and Blochman’s Áin-i-Akbari, I. 325 and note. The Mirăt-i-Áhmedi (Pers. Text, 131) records these further details: When starting from his last camp Akbar began to mount his horse on the day of the battle that took place near Áhmedábád. The royal steed unable to bear the weight of the hero laden with the spirit of victory sat down. Rája Bhagwándás Kachwáhah ran up to the rather embarrassed emperor and offered him his congratulations saying: This, your Majesty, is the surest sign of victory. There are also two further signs: the wind blows from our back and the kites and vultures accompany our host. [↑]
[8] Tabakát-i-Akbari in Elliot, V. 405. [↑]
[9] Mángrúl (north latitude 21° 8′; east longitude 70° 10′), a seaport on the south coast of Káthiáváḍa, about twenty miles west of Somnáth. This town, which is supposed to be the Monoglossum emporium of Ptolemy (a.d. 150) (see Bird, 115), is spelt Mánglúr by the Muhammadan historians. Barbosa (a.d. 1511–1514), under the name of Surati-mangaler, calls it a ‘very good port where many ships from Malabár touch for horses, wheat, rice, cotton goods, and vegetables.’ In a.d. 1531 the city was taken by the Portuguese general Sylveira with a vast booty and a great number of prisoners (Churchill’s Travels, III. 529). It is incidentally mentioned in the Áin-i-Akbari (a.d. 1590). In a.d. 1638 Mandelslo describes it as famous for its linen cloth, and in a.d. 1700 it is mentioned by Hamilton (New Account, I. 136) as a place of trade. [↑]
[10] This has been rendered by Bird, 353, ‘the mountain of Dínár,’ as if Koh Dínár. [↑]
[11] H. 992 (1584 a.d.) according to the Tabakát-i-Akbari (Elliot, V. 428). [↑]
[12] Mirăt-i-Sikandari, 422. Compare Blochman’s Áin-i-Akbari, I. 386. [↑]
[13] Mirăt-i-Sikandari, 426: Farishtah, I. 503; Elliot, V. 434. In honour of this victory the Khán Khánán built, on the site of the battle, a palace and garden enclosing all with a high wall. This which he named Jítpur the City of Victory was one of the chief ornaments of Áhmedábád. In November 1613 the English merchant Wittington writes (Kerr’s Voyages, IX. 127): A kos from Sarkhej is a pleasant house with a large garden all round on the banks of the river which Chon-Chin-Naw (Khán Khánán) built in honour of a great victory over the last king of Gujarát. No person inhabits the house. Two years later (1615) another English merchant Dodsworth (Kerr, IX. 203) describes the field of Victory as strongly walled all round with brick about 1½ miles in circuit all planted with fruit trees and delightfully watered having a costly house called by a name signifying Victory in which Khán Khánán for some time resided. In 1618, the emperor Jehángír (Memoirs Persian Text, 210–213) on his way to Sarkhej visited the Khán-i-Khánán’s Bághi Fateh or Garden of Victory which he had built at a cost of two lákhs of rupees ornamenting the garden with buildings and surrounding it with a wall. The natives he notices call it Fateh-Wádi. In 1626 the English traveller Herbert (Travels, 66) writes: Two miles nearer Áhmedábád than Sirkhej are the curious gardens and palace of Khán Khánán where he defeated the last of the Cambay kings and in memory built a stately house and spacious gardens the view whereof worthily attracts the traveller. Mandelslo writing in 1638 is still louder in praise of Tschietbág the Garden of Victory. It is the largest and most beautiful garden in all India because of its splendid buildings and abundance of fine fruits. Its site is one of the pleasantest in the world on the border of a great tank having on the water side many pavilions and a high wall on the side of Áhmedábád. The lodge and the caravanserai are worthy of the prince who built them. The garden has many fruit trees oranges, citrons, pomegranates, dates, almonds, mulberries, tamarinds, mangoes, and cocoanuts so closely planted that all walking in the garden is under most pleasing shade (Mandelslo’s Travels, French Ed. 111–112). When (a.d. 1750) the Mirăt-i-Áhmedi was written several of the buildings and the remains of the summer house were still to be seen (Bird’s History of Gujarát, 375). A few traces of the buildings known as Fateh Bádi or Victory Garden remains 1879). (Áhmedábád Gazetteer, 292.) [↑]
[14] Two lákhs of mahmúdis. The mahmúdi varied in value from about one-third to one-half of a rupee. See Introduction page 222 note 2. [↑]
[15] Morvi (north latitude 29° 48′; east longitude 70° 50′), a town in Káthiáváḍa, about twenty-one miles south of Kachh. [↑]