84 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIII, 



Now it will be noticed that the word Muradi is omitted 

 in the text of Badaoni, just as the word Tanka is omitted in 

 the Lucknow Lithograph of Nizamu-d-din. But there can be 

 no doubt that both writers meant the same kind of tanka, 

 for the numbers, Four lakhs and five hundred are repeated in 

 both. Leaving for the present the discussion of tiie equation, 

 Four lakhs of Muradi tonkas = five hundred Tumans of Iraq, 

 I will proceed to quote another passage in which the Muradi 

 tanka is again explicitly mentioned in the Tabaqat. Speaking 

 of the visit of Mirza Rustam in the thirty-eighth Regnal year, 

 Nizamu-d-din says : 



Lucknow Lithograph, p. 379, 11. 16-18. Mulhl Firuz Library 



Manuscript, folio 379 a., 11. 7-10. 



When 



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kindnesses 



respects, the 



princely condescensions, and presented him with a kror of 

 Muradi tonkas, and gave him a place among the Amirs who 

 were Commanders of Five Thousand and bestowed Multan upon 

 him as his Jagir." 



Here again, Badaoni repeats the important epithet Muradi, 

 which is omitted in the version of Dowson (E. D. v, 467), leav- 

 ing no doubt that it must have existed in the copy of the 

 Tabaqat which Badaoni had before his eyes while compiling 

 his own account. Badaoni's own words are as follows: 



Bibl. Ind. Text, II, 388, 11. 20-22. Lucknow Lithograph 271, 



11. 6-7. 



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After 



one kror Muradi tankas in cash 



gave him admission to the rank of those Amirs who were 



Commanders of Five Thousand and appointed Multan as his 

 Jagir. 



In this passage, Lowe has rendered the word Muradi, 



took 



of his translation, by « in small change.' (II, 402). 



I 



Badaoni 



and relates to his personal experiences. He informs us that 

 ne had been commanded to translate into Persian a collection 



