[28] Elphinstone’s History of India, Book V. Chapter I. 263 Note 25 (John Murray’s 1849 Edition) on the authority of Captain MacMurdo and Captain Alexander Burnes inclines to the opinion that Debal was somewhere near the site of the modern Karáchi. [↑]
[29] Sir Henry Elliot’s History of India, I. 65. Sachau’s Text of Al Bírúni, chapter 18 page 102. [↑]
[30] Al Biláduri uses the word Barija for a strong built war vessel. Sir Henry Elliot derives the word from the Arabic and gives an interesting note on the subject in his Appendix I. 539. The word is still used in Hindustáni as beda (بيڈا) to signify a boat or bark. [↑]
[31] Sachau’s Arabic Text, 102. [↑]
[32] According to Richardson (Arabic Dictionary voce مقل myrrh) though rendered gum by all translators. According to the Makhzan the word mukl (Urdu gughal) is Balsamodendron and Bádrud the corruption of Báruz (Urdu biroza) is balsam or bezoar. [↑]
[33] Sachau’s Arabic Text page 99 chapter 18. [↑]
[34] After giving the distances in days or journeys the Text (page 102 Sachau’s Text of Al Bírúni) does not particularise the distances of the places that follow in journeys or farsakhs. [↑]
[35] Elliot’s History of India, I. 67. [↑]
[36] Abu Abdallah Muhammad Al Idrísi, a native of Ceuta in Morocco and descended from the royal family of the Idrísis of that country, settled at the court of Roger II. of Sicily, where and at whose desire he wrote his book The Nuzhat-ul-Mushták or The Seeker’s Delight. Elliot’s History of India, I: 74. Almost all Al Idrísi’s special information regarding Sindh and Western India is from Al-Jauhari governor of Khurásán (a.d. 892–999), whose knowledge of Sindh and the Indus valley is unusually complete and accurate. Compare Reinaud’s Abulfeda, lxiii. [↑]