[110:1] Sura 16; v. 92.
[110:2] Weber makes the following statement on the authority of Lassen:—"Al-Birūnī translated Patañjalī's work into Arabic at the beginning of the 11th century, and also, it would appear, the Sānkhya sūtra, though the information we have as to the contents of these works does not harmonise with the Sanskrit originals." History of Indian Literature, p. 239.
[113:1] Mr. Nicholson has collected the various definitions of Ṣūfīism. See J. R. A. S. April, 1906.
[114:1] Mathnawī, Jalāl al Dīn Rūmī, with Baḥral ‘ulūm's Commentary. Lucknow (India), 1877, p. 9.
[114:2] As regards the progress of Buddhism Geiger says:—"We know that in the period after Alexander, Buddhism was powerful in Eastern Iran, and that it counted its confessors as far as Tabaristan. It is especially certain that many Buddhistic priests were found in Bactria. This state of things, which began perhaps in the first century before Christ, lasted till the 7th century A.D., when the appearance of Islamism alone cut short the development of Buddhism in Kabul and Bactria, and it is in that period that we will have to place the rise of the Zarathushtra legend in the form in which it is presented to us by Daqīqī."
Civilisation of Eastern Iranians Vol. II, p. 170.
[115:1] Nasafī's Maqṣadi Aqṣā: fol. 8b.
[115:2] Nasafī's Maqṣadi Aqṣā: fol. 10b.
[115:3] Nasafī's Maqṣadi Aqṣā: fol. 23b.
[116:1] Nasafī's Maqṣadi Aqṣā: fol. 3b.