[34] Compare Briggs’ Farishtah, IV 323. [↑]
[35] Gladwin’s Áin-i-Akbari, II. 41. [↑]
[36] Briggs’ Farishtah, IV. 210; Farishtah, Persian Text II. 488. [↑]
[37] Memoirs of the emperor Jehángír (Pers. Text) Sir Sayad Áhmed’s Edition, page 188, eleventh year of Jehángír, a.d. 1617. [↑]
[38] Herbert’s Khán Jehan is doubtless Mehmúd’s father the minister Malik Mughís, Khán Jehán Aâzam Humáyún. It cannot be Khán Jehán Pir Muhammad, Akbar’s general, who after only a few months’ residence was slain in Mándu in a.d. 1561; nor can it be Jehángír’s great Afghán general, Khán Jehán Lodi (a.d. 1600–1630), as he was not in Mándu until a.d. 1628, that is more than a year after Herbert left India. Compare Herbert’s Travels, 107–118; Elliot, VI. 249–323, VII. 7, 8, and 21; and Blochman’s Áin-i-Akbari, 503–506. [↑]
[39] Briggs’ Farishtah, IV. 214. [↑]
[40] Ruins of Mándu, 13. Farishtah has three mentions of colleges. One (Pers. Text, II. 475) as the place where the body of Hoshang was carried, probably that prayers might be said over it. In another passage in the reign of Mehmúd I. (Pers. Text, II. 480) he states that Mehmúd built colleges in his territories which became the envy of Shíráz and Samarkand. In a third passage he mentions a college (page 488) near the Victory Tower. [↑]
[41] Briggs’ Farishtah, IV. 217. A different but almost incredible account of the capture of the royal belt is given in the Mirăt-i-Sikandari, Pers. Text, 159: When Sultán Kutb-ud-dín, son of Sultán Muhammad, defeated Sultán Mehmúd Khilji at the battle of Kapadvanj, there was such a slaughter as could not be exceeded. By chance, in the heat of the fray, which resembled the Day of Judgment, the wardrobe-keeper of Sultán Kutb-ud-dín, in whose charge was the jewelled belt, was by the restiveness of his horse carried into the ranks of the enemy. The animal there became so violent that the wardrobe-keeper fell off and was captured by the enemy, and the jewelled belt was taken from him and given to Sultán Mehmúd of Málwa. The author adds: This jewelled waistband was in the Málwa treasury at the time the fortress of Mándu was taken by the strength of the arm of Sultán Muzaffar (a.d. 1531). Sultán Mehmúd sent this belt together with a fitting sword and horse to Sultán Muzaffar by the hands of his son. [↑]
[42] Briggs’ Farishtah, IV. 209. [↑]
[43] Briggs’ Farishtah, IV. 234–235: Pers. Text, II. 503. [↑]