FOOTNOTES (continued 4)
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Babur, Emperor of Hindustan and Beveridge, Annette Susannah
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[1450] He was acting for Bābur (Translator’s Note s.a.; Ḥ.S. iii, 318; T.R. pp. 260, 270).
[1451] “Honoured,” in this sentence, represents Bābur’s honorific plural.
[1452] in 921 AH. (Translator’s Note s.a.; T.R. p. 356).
[1453]i.e. Mīr Muḥammad son of Nāṣir.
[1454]i.e. after the dethronement of the Bāī-qarā family by Shaibānī.
[1455] He had been one of rebels of 921 AH. (Translator’s Note s.a.; T.R. p. 356).
[1456] f. 137.
[1457] This is the Adjutant-bird, Pīr-i-dang and Hargila (Bone-swallower) of Hindūstān, a migrant through Kābul. The fowlers who brought it would be the Multänīs of f. 142b.
[1458] f. 280.
[1459]Memoirs, p. 267, sycamore; Mémoires ii, 84, saules; f. 137.
[1460] Perhaps with his long coat out-spread.
[1461] The fortnight’s gap of record, here ended, will be due to illness.
[1462] f. 203b and n. to Khams, the Fifth. Taṣadduq occurs also on f. 238 denoting money sent to Bābur. Was it sent to him as Pādshāh, as the Qorān commands the Khams to be sent to the Imām, for the poor, the traveller and the orphan?
[1463] Rose-water, sherbet, a purgative; English, jalap, julep.
[1464] Mr. Erskine understood Bābur to say that he never had sat sober while others drank; but this does not agree with the account of Harāt entertainments [912 AH.], or with the tenses of the passage here. My impression is that he said in effect “Every-one here shall not be deprived of their wine”.
[1465] This verse, a difficult one to translate, may refer to the unease removed from his attendants by Bābur’s permission to drink; the pun in it might also refer to well and not well.
[1466] Presumably to aid his recovery.
[1467]aūtkān yīl, perhaps in the last and unchronicled year; perhaps in earlier ones. There are several references in the B.N. to the enforced migrations and emigrations of tribes into Kābul.
[1468] Pūlād (Steel) was a son of Kūchūm, the then Khāqān of the Aūzbegs, and Mihr-bānū who may be Bābur’s half-sister. [Index s.n.]
[1469] This may be written for Mihr-bānū, Pūlād’s mother and Bābur’s half-sister (?) and a jest made on her heart as Pūlād’s and as steel to her brother. She had not left husband and son when Bābur got the upper hand, as his half-sister Yādgār-sult̤ān did and other wives of capture e.g. Ḥaidar’s sister Ḥabība. Bābur’s rhymes in this verse are not of his later standard, āī ṣubāḥ, kūnkūīkā, kūnkūlī-kā.
[1470]Taṣadduq sent to Bābur would seem an acknowledgment of his suzerainty in Balkh [Index s.n.].
[1471] This is the Gīrdīz-pass [Raverty’s Notes, Route 101].
[1472] Raverty (p. 677) suggests that Pātakh stands for bātqāq, a quagmire (f. 16 and n.).
[1473] the dark, or cloudy spring.
[1474]yāqīsh-līq qūl, an unusual phrase.
[1475] var. Karmān, Kurmāh, Karmās. M. de C. read Kīr-mās, the impenetrable. The forms would give Garm-ās, hot embers.
[1476]balafré; marked on the face; of a horse, starred.
[1477] Raverty’s Notes (p. 457) give a full account of this valley; in it are the head-waters of the Tochī and the Zurmut stream; and in it R. locates Rustam’s ancient Zābul.
[1478] It is on the Kābul side of the Gīrdīz-pass and stands on the Luhugūr-water (Logar).
[1479] f. 143.
[1480] At this point of the text there occurs in the Elph. MS. (f. 195b) a note, manifestly copied from one marginal in an archetype, which states that what follows is copied from Bābur’s own MS. The note (and others) can be seen in JRAS 1905 p. 754 et seq.
[1481] Masson, iii, 145.
[1482] A qūlāch is from finger-tip to finger-tip of the outstretched arms (Zenker p. 720 and Méms. ii, 98).
[1483] Neither interne is said to have died!
[1484] f. 143.
[1485] or Atūn’s-village, one granted to Bābur’s mother’s old governess (f. 96); Gul-badan’s guest-list has also an Atūn Māmā.
[1486] f. 235b and note.
[1487]miswāk; On les tire principalement de l’arbuste épineux appelé capparis-sodata (de C. ii, 101 n.).
[1488] Gul-badan’s H.N. Index s.n.
[1489] This being Ramẓān, Bābur did not break his fast till sun-set. In like manner, during Ramẓān they eat in the morning before sun-rise (Erskine).