[100] Blochman’s Áin-i-Akbari, 429. [↑]
[101] Gladwin’s Áin-i-Akbari, II. 41. [↑]
[102] Blochman’s Áin-i-Akbari, 31. [↑]
[103] Briggs’ Farishtah, IV. 169, 181, 190. [↑]
[104] Nineteen kos, taking the kos to be two miles. [↑]
[105] The emperor Jehángír’s Memoirs, Pers. Text, Sir Sayad Áhmed’s Edition, 178–203. [↑]
[106] Literally single-men. The Ahadís were a corps of men who stood immediately under the emperor’s orders. Blochman’s Áin-i-Akbari, 20 note 1. [↑]
[107] This scattering of gold silver or copper coin, called in Arabic and Persian nisár, is a common form of offering. The influence of the evil eye or other baneful influence is believed to be transferred from the person over whom the coin is scattered to the coin and through the coin to him who takes it. [↑]
[108] This feat of Núr Jehán’s drew from one of the Court poets the couplet:
Núr Jehán gar chih ba súrat zanast