Volume 1

The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī, or, Memoirs of Jahāngīr ... / translated by Alexander Rogers .. ; edited by Henry Beveridge.

Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan, 1569-1627.

Date:: 1909-1914

Credit: The Tūzuk-i-Jahāngīrī, or, Memoirs of Jahāngīr ... / translated by Alexander Rogers .. ; edited by Henry Beveridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$presented to Salamu-llah. The sentence should end on 1. 9 after the word ‘panther-keeper,’ which word is probably a mistranslation. Then this new sentence should come, i.e. ‘ Salamu-llah ‘Arab, who is a young man of a distinguished Arabian family (kih az jaiucmdn-i-qardr-ddda-i- ^Arab ast) and related to Mubarak, the governor of Dizful, came to wait upon me on account of his being suspicious of the designs of Shah ‘Abbas (against himself).’ ‘I patronized him,’ etc. (as on p. 158). p. 158, n. 3, and p. 162, n. 1. Both notes are wrong. The place meant bj^ Jahangir is Dizful, a town in the Khuzistan province of Persia, and Juyza is evidently a copyist’s error for Khuz or Khuza, another name for lOirizistan. Dizful is an ancient name, and according to Yaqut, Barbier de Meynard’s translation, p. 231, the proper spelling is Dizpul, i.e. ‘ the Bridge of the Citadel,’ the town being named after a famou bridge built over the river. For l^iiz see B. de Meynard, 216. p. 160, 1. 12 from foot. Qabulah was a town in the Bet Jalandhar Du’ab. p. 163, 1. 9. It is 2,000 rupees in I.O. MSS. p. 163, 1. 12. It is not Qacha Dakhani in I.O. MSS., but I am not sure what the clause, as given by them, means. No. 181 seems to have hafatdlidlgl for ‘assistance’!?). Two B.M. MSS. have apparently bafatdhdl Icapl, but Add. 26,215 has the Arabic Aa, while Or. 3276 has the ordinary h, so that the words possibly mean ‘the young of the monkey ’ (kapl). p. 166, 1. 2. Husamu-d-din was married to Abu-l-fazl’s sister, Blochmann, 441. p. 167, 1. 16. The word rojh in brackets is wrong. The MSS. have qard-qiiyragli and qard-qiiyrdgh. P. de Courteille gives quyrugh as meaning a tail, so perhaps qard-quyrugh means a black-tailed sheep or deer. See p. 129, 1. 17, where the qard-quyrugh is said to be the chikdra. p. 168, last line. The MSS. has h/ibs-i-mazld, which does not necessarily mean imprisonment for life. p. 170, n. 2. For Akbar’s wives read Jahangir’s wives, p. 172, 1. 21 seq. Is this the story referred to by Hawkins (Purchas), about Muqarrab having taken a Banian’s daughter ? p. 177, note. For one-third of an inch read one and a third inches, p. 183, 1. 8. This is the annular eclipse entered in Dr. R. Schramm’s Tables, Sewell’s Indian Calendar, as having occurred on 5th December, 1610, which corresponds to 28th Ramazan, 1019. p. 185, n. 3. Persian text, p. 309, 1. 11, has the phrase map'd girifta dtash dddand, ‘ took aim and fired ’ (a cannon). p. 188, 1. 7 from foot. For Naziri, see Rieu, ii, 8075, and Blochmann, 579. He died in 1622 (1613). p. 191, 1. 10. For dhik{‘t) read dhlk, i.e. adjutant bird, p. 191, 1. 8. Pdtal means ‘red’ or ‘rose-coloured’ in Sanskrit. Query ‘ red deer. ’ p. 192, 1. 2. Add year 10‘20. p. 195, last line. The passage is rather obscure, but the meaning seems to be that though formalities are not regarded by the wise, yet weak persons {qdivdsir, which apparently is a plural of qdsir), regard 29$