[48] Sir H. Elliot’s History of India, I. 85. [↑]
[50] Elliot’s History of India, I. 89. [↑]
[51] Zakariah Ibni Muhammad Al Kazwíni, a native of Kazwín (Kasbin) in Persia, wrote his Ásár-ul-Bilád or “Signs or Monuments of Countries” about a.h. 661 (a.d. 1263) compiling it chiefly from the writings of Al Istakhri (a.d. 951) and Ibni Haukal (a.d. 976). He also frequently quotes Misâr bin Muhalhil, a traveller who (a.d. 942) visited India and China. Sir Henry Elliot’s History of India, I. 94. [↑]
[52] Barbier De Meynard’s Text of Al Masúdi’s Les Prairies D’Or, I. 382. [↑]
[53] Sir Henry Elliot misreads Tamraz for Al Bírúni’s Arabic form of Narmaza. He says: It comes from the city of Tamraz and the eastern hills; it has a south-easterly course till it falls into the sea near Báhruch about 60 yojanas to the east of Somnáth. The literal translation of the text of Al Bírúni (see Sachau’s Al Bírúni’s India, 130) is that given above: It is hard to believe that the accurate Al Bírúni while in one place (see Sachau’s Text, 99) giving the name of the Narbada faultlessly, should in another place fall into the error of tracing it from Tirmiz a city of Central Asia. A comparison of Elliot’s version with the text sets the difficulty at rest. Compare Sir Henry Elliot’s History of India, I. 49 and note 3 ditto and Sachau’s Arabic Text of Al Bírúni, 180 chapter 25. [↑]
[54] Compare Sachau’s Al Bírúni with Sir Henry Elliot, I. 49, who is silent as to the distance. [↑]
[55] See Ahmedábád Gazetteer, IV. 338; also Elliot’s History of India, I. 356–357. [↑]