[8] This important expedition extended to Ujjain. Details Above page 109 and also under Bhínmál. Raids by sea from Sindh were repeated in a.d. 758, 760, 755, and perhaps a.d. 830. Reinaud’s Fragments, 212. See Above Bhagvánlál’s Early History page 96 note 3. [↑]
[9] Details Above pages 94–96. [↑]
[10] Sir Henry Elliot’s History of India, I. 129. [↑]
[11] Sir Henry Elliot (History of India, I. 129) calls it Kállari though (Ditto note 3) he says the text has Máli. [↑]
[12] Sir H. Elliot’s History of India, I. 129. [↑]
[13] Ibni Khurdádbah a Musalmán of Magian descent as his name signifies, died H. 300 (a.d. 912). He held high office under the Abbási Khalífahs at Baghdád (Elliot’s History of India, I. 13). [↑]
[14] Abul Hasan Al Masudi, a native of Baghdád, who visited India about a.d. 915 and wrote his “Meadows of Gold” (Murúj-uz-zahab) about a.d. 950–51 and died a.d. 956 in Egypt. (Sir Henry Elliot’s History of India, I. 23–25.) [↑]
[15] Abu Is-hák Al Istakhri, a native (as his cognomen signifies) of Persepolis who flourished about the middle of the tenth century and wrote his Book of Climes (Kitábul Akálím) about a.h. 340 (a.d. 951). Elliot’s History of India, I. 26. [↑]
[16] See Appendix A. Volume I. Sir Henry Elliot’s History of India. [↑]
[17] Elliot’s History of India, 394, where Sir Henry Elliot calculates a parsang or farsang (Arabic farsakh) to be 3½ miles. Al Bírúni, however, counts four kroh or miles to a farsakh. Sachau’s Al Bírúni Arabic Text, chapter 18 page 97. [↑]