[38] Bombay Gazetteer, II. 69. [↑]
[39] Elliot’s History of India, I. 76. [↑]
[40] Elliot’s History of India, I. 79. [↑]
[41] Elliot’s History of India, I. 79. [↑]
[42] Elliot’s History of India, I. 84. [↑]
[43] The details of Kulámmali given by Al Kazwíni (a.d. 1263–1275) seem to show it is Quilon on the Malabár Coast. When a ruler died his successor was always chosen from China. [↑]
[44] Elliot (I. 363–364) on the authority of Al Istakhri thinks that all the names Ámhal, Fámhal, Kámhal, and Mámhal are faulty readings of Anhal (Anhil)wára owing to irregularity in the position or absence of diacritical points. [↑]
[45] This is probably Ránder, a very natural Arab corruption. Instance Al Bírúni’s Ranjhur. See page 507 note 11 and page 520. [↑]
[46] Rumála is mentioned at pages 14, 87, 92 and 93 volume I. of Elliot. It is first mentioned (page 14) by Ibni Khurdádbah (a.d. 912) as one of the countries of Sindh. It is next mentioned by Al Idrísi (end of the eleventh century according to Elliot, I. 74) as one of the places of the eighth section describing the coast of India, but is mentioned along with Nahrwára, Kandhár, and Kalbata (?). At page 92 (Ditto) the same writer (Idrísi) says that Kalbata and Rumála are on the borders of the desert which separates Multán from Sijistán. Again at page 93 (Ditto) Idrísi gives the distance between Kalbata and Rumála as a distance of three days. [↑]