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32. Errata, etc., in the A.S.B. Edition of Abu Turab’s 
History of Gujarat, Calcutta 1909. 
By H. Breveriper. 
Dr. Denison Ross has conferred a boon on all who are 
interested in Indian history by his edition of Abi Turab’s 
work. It is quite a new source for the history of Gujarat. 
Apparently the British Museum MS. Or. 1818, Rieu, Cat. IIT. 
967, is unique. It is one of the many manuscripts that we owe 
to that devoted scholar Sir Henry Elliot, the tablet to whose 
the B.M. MS. made for him by Haji ‘Abdul saa of = 
The copyist was evidently a good scholar, but e had 
only one manuscript to work from, and that 1 a foxy in —aae. 
holes, some mistakes have occurred. Possi bly too there are 
some printer’s errors in the edition As I Abi Turab’ 
also made a few remarks on what seemed to be obscure 
passages. 
Page 2,1. 3. For eble read -ble, Page 5,1. 4. In the 
first line of couplet, for sb ki» 84 read sls, The copyist has 
mistaken the hamzafor a niin, and Dr. Ross has justly ere 
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intelligible. It was composed in praise of Bahadur Gujarati’s 
father Sultan Mozaffar II, and celebrates his generosity in 
restoring the kingdom of Malwa to Sultan Mahmid Khilji after 
the officers of the latter had dispossessed and imprisoned him. 
This couplet may be translated :— 
‘« Thy Court is the happy home of the afflicted, 
Whate’ er thou takest, thou restorest. 
The chronogram which precedes, yields 929 A.H., whi 
corresponds to 1523. There is a much more difficult a 
at p. 25. The copy, however, is correct: it is only the 
enigmatic meaning which is obscure. It seems that Ikhtiyar 
Khan, Bahadur’s governor of Champanir, had a reputation for 
making versified riddles. This one he is said to have made 
when Humayun offered him his choice between taking service 
