[96] This appears to be a pseudonym assumed by the author.
[97] Jalálu’ddín Rúmí.
[98] Bábá Kamáluddín Jundí. For Shams-i Tabríz and his relation to Jalálu’ddín Rúmí see my Selected Poems from the Diváni Shamsi Tabríz (Cambridge, 1898).
[99] Abraham refused to worship the sun, moon, and stars, saying, “I love not them that set” (Koran, ch. 6, v. 76).
[100] See note [81] on l. [1040].
[101] In the Masnaví Love is called “the physician of our pride and self-conceit, our Plato and our Galen.”
[102] The famous idol of Somnath was destroyed by Sultan Mahmúd of Ghazna.
[103] The pilgrims are forbidden to kill game.
[104] See note [90] on l. [1258].