78 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIT, 
Bombay Lithograph, ITI, iii, 295, four.lines from foot. 
“Tn that place (lt. stage in travelling), Amir Sultan 
Husain Qarawal, the father of Qich Beg, who had after the 
murder (lit. accident, calamity) of Baisangqar left Qaratigin 
with his brothers, family and dependants and turned his face 
towards “the Camp associated with Victory,” acquired the 
honour of kissing the carpet [of Babur].”’ 
This passage leaves no room for doubt that the phrase 
itself has nothing peculiar or mystical about it, and that it is 
much older than Akbar or Akbar’s religious innovations. The 
’ Mongols of the Golden Horde and of Persia had struck coins 
at pose! 933, ML soyt and sxxosJ! yx9t. Osmanli mintages of 
wyale® Cogay!, are also known. (Codrington, Musalman Numis- 
matics, 136). 
“Timur himself,” says Sod Clements R. Markham, *‘ was 
of the race of Turkish wanderer a Geavien lived 
ment in the open plains to a residence in the most splendid 
(‘Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy oe. de 
Clavijo to the Court of Timir,’ Introd. p. viii. 
The Imperial dwelling or residence thus came to be called 
the js! (or Sma) even when it was not under tents but in a 
marble palace, and then all sorts of complimentary epithets 
like gle} vlan, wy? 22 and wylee were affixed to it. The 
Mongols of the Golden Horde were so called merely because 
Batt, the grandson of Jenghiz (Changiz) Khan, established 
himself in his magnificent tent (Sir Orda, Golden Camp) at 
Sarai on the Volga : 
e Urdi mintages of the Mongols are well known, and 
Sharfu-d-din, the biographer of Timur, informs us that the 
income from the chet cosoi wydizts ‘the Mint: of the Exalted 
Camp,’ was six hundred thousand Dinar-i-Kabaki soon after 
thesack of Damascus by that conqueror (Zafarnama, Bibl. Ind. 
Text, IT, 336, ll. 8-9). There is little or no difference between 
! The following extract from the * Voyage to East India’ of Edward 
Terry, “sar Thomas Roe’s chaplain, shows that this taste for camp- atte 
was inherited by Timir’s descendants, _the cnigere Mae ghals, and thro 
useful ight on the real meaning uaskar-i I gbal “nd 
argarin 
All the eal men there live a great part of the year, in which their 
meine are more tem vr a ate, (as from the middle of September to the 
cording to their fancies, ridge remove from place to ra changing their 
air as often as they please.”* Op. Cit. Edit. 1777, p. 176. 
