[80] Literally, "of the How and the Why."
[81] Text, shir-andam, 'tiger-shaped,' which I think means thin in the flank (see Steingass, s.v.). I have taken the translation of the words malahat and sabahat from Elliot. See his note vi, 376, where the two words seem wrongly spelt.
[82] Erskine has "Let Sulaiman place his ring on his finger."
"In pleasure of the chase with thee, my soul breathes fresh and clear; But who receives thy fatal dart, sinks lifeless on his bier."
[84] Perhaps referring to the name which Daniyal gave to his gun, and which recoiled on himself, but the MSS. and text have nagirad, and not bagirad.
[85] The MSS. have Shakar-nisar, 'sugar-sprinkling.' She lived into Shah-Jahan's reign.
[86] She died unmarried in Jahangir's reign.
[87] This must, I think, be the meaning, though according to the wording the statement would seem to be that there is no room for Shias except in Persia. Erskine has "None but Shias are tolerated in Persia, Sunnis in Rum and Turan, and Hindus in Hindustan."
[88] Kings are regarded as shadows of God.
[89] The chronogram is one year short, yielding 962 instead of 963.
[90] According to the Tabaqat, Elliot, v, 366, what the Mirza said was "Where are the elephants?"
[91] The word for 'face-guard' is pish-ruy (front-face), and Jahangir makes his father pun upon the word, saying, "It has loosed (opened) my front-face." Cf. Price, p. 54.
[92] 'The helper.' This is an allusion to Akbar's patron saint, Mu`inu-d-din Chishti, whose name he adopted as his battle-cry.
[93] The reading in the lithograph seems wrong; the MSS. have az bazicha, 'in jest.'
[94] Abu-l-fazl is more moderate; he says (Blochmann, p. 116) that Akbar killed 1,019 animals with Sangram.
[96] The furriery. See Blochmann, pp. 87 n. and 616. Kurk means 'fur' in Turki.
[97] The word yatish is omitted in text, but occurs in the MSS.
[98] Haji Koka was sister of Sa`adat Yar Koka (Akbar-nama, iii, 656). According to Price this passage refers to a widows' fund.
[99] This was one of Akbar's regulations (Blochmann p. 142). The amount was ten dams on each muhr of the horse's value, calculated on an increase of 50 per cent. See also Price, p. 61.
[100] This passage is not clear, but the peculiarity to which attention is drawn seems rather the prominent forehead than the oozing fluid. Price (p. 62) has a fuller account of this elephant.