40 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (February, 1908. 
think that Dr. Teufel would have thonght so too, had he been 
aware of the passage in Jahangir’s memoirs, which says that he 
wrote with his own hand four chapters, or parts of Babar’s 
memoirs, ‘Ihe passage is thus translated in Elliot and Duwson’s 
Sela i India, Vol. vi, p. 315 :— 
* With the denser of acqniring information about the history of ee! I 
used to res ee th ayi at Babari which, «ll except four parts (juz%), w rit- 
ten with nis s cAinbae’ xyown hand Me comple oe 1e work, I copied t anion rohit 
(ajz@ myself, and at tre end [ added! some — raphs in the ‘Turkish 
langnage to show that they were periree by me. Although I was brought 
ap in Hindustan, yet 1 am not deficient in reading and writing Turki. 
The impression above referred to has recently been ep by 
my finding from the excelent British Museum MS, Or 3276, 
. 69°, tha: in most of the other MSS. of the Tazuk Jalan and 
in Saiyid Ahmaw’s imprint an important word has been omitted 
from the passage. According to them, Jana ngir’s words are 
Magur chahar juzi ke anra bu khat khwud navishtum, “ xcept four 
chapters (or parts) which I wrore with my ses hand.” But in 
Or. 3276 the words are Mugar chuhar jazu yum,* anra bu khat khud 
nuvishtum. ‘ But four chapte s were missing (or wanting), (and) 
these | wrote with my own hand.” | suggest that the four miss- 
ing chapers here spoken of are the Fragments or, at lea-t, those 
portions of them which Babar ec uld not possibly have written, If 
Jahanvir wrote them, their absence from the Haidarabad MS. and 
from ‘Abdu- r-Rabim’s translation is explained. We know from 
the Tazak Jabauyinri that Jahangir was well acquaimted with the 
Akbainama, and tiat though he killed the author, he never 
scrupled to copy his descriptions. What then more likely than 
that te should desire to show his knowledge of Turki, aud to 
complete his aucestor’s book by finishing the biography which had 
breken off abruptly more than a twelve month before Babar’s 
death? I think, too, that the Indian and Persian expressions in the 
Fragments are better explained by the hypothesis that the Frag- 
ments were written by Jahangir than by Dr, Teufel’s idea tiat 
they were composed by a Sart or un Uzbeg in order to make his 
manuscript more valu able 
Lt will be observed that Jahanuir does not clearly say where 
and when he wrote the four chapters, The pas sage occurs in the 
narrative of the second year of his Memoirs, and is included in the 
acconnt of his visit to Kabul. But be may have com poxed the 
chapters at anu earlier period, and possibly as an exercise in his 
school days. It will also be seen that in the translation in Elliot, 
Jahangir is made to say that he wrote the four parts in order to 
compete the work. This looks as if the word gum had occurred 
in the MS. used ees the translator, 
1 This is rather an obscure sentence How ie the added words 
tt 
was iv Turki if the four parts were also in tne besckas 
és: I: is written kam in the MS. and it may be kam, that is, ‘‘ short, de- 
icieut.” 
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