[46]. Abu-l Fazl, in describing the province of Bajaur, inhabited by the Yusufzais, says: “The whole of the tract [Swāt] of hill and plain is the domain of the Yūsufzai clan. In the time of Mīrza Ulugh Beg of Kābul, they migrated from Kābul to this territory and wrested it from the Sultāns who affected to be descendants of Alexander Bicornutus” (Āīn, ii. 392 f.). Mr. Elphinstone inquired in vain for this offspring of Alexander the Great.
[47]. [These derivations are impossible; the name is possibly connected with that of the Savara tribe.]
[48]. [Nawakot and Mitti in the interior of Thar-Pārkar; Baliāri on the shore of the Great Rann.]
[49]. [The Rājar are recorded as a section of the Saman, an aboriginal tribe in Sind (Census Report, Bombay, 1911, i. 233).]
[50]. [See Elliot-Dowson i. 489.]
[51]. [The true reading is Nohmardi (Āīn, ii. 337).]
[52]. [Cf. Hindi lokri or lokhri.]
[53]. [Max Müller derived Baloch from Skt. mlechchha, ‘a barbarian,’ but this is doubtful.]
[54]. [Zott is the Arabic form of Jat or Jāt (Sykes, Hist. of Persia, ii. 79).]
[55]. [The ascription of Bhatti origin to the Mers is obviously intended to correspond with the assertion that they are a branch of the Mīna or Maina tribe (Elliot-Dowson i. 523 f.).]