30 H. G. Raverty— Who were the Pathdn Sultans ofDihli? [No. 1, 



Tughluk-Shahi dynasty. The writer of these pages, Muhammad Kasim 

 Firishtah, when, at the commencement of the reign of Nur-ud-din Muham- 

 mad Jahangir Badshah, he [Firishtah] on the part of the Sultan of the age, 

 Ibrahim 'A'dil Shah, reached the city of Labor, he made inquiry of some 

 persons of that place, who had a predilection for reading the histories of the 

 sovereigns of Hindustan, and who were acquainted with the events [of the 

 reigns] of the Sultans of Hind, respecting the origin and lineage of the 

 Tughluk-Shahi sovereigns. They replied, [saying] — We, likewise, have 

 not seen [anything] distinctly mentioned [on the subject] in any book 

 [Ibn Batutah's account notwithstanding] ; but, in this country [province ?] 

 it is currently stated that Malik Tughluk, the father of the Badshah Ghivas- 

 ud-din Tughluk Shah, was attached to the train of Turk slaves of Sultan 

 Ghi3 T as-ud-din Balban, and that he formed a connection with the Jat race, 

 who are the aborigines \jj*y. — native, homebred, one who has never been 

 abroad] of this country, and espoused a daughter of one of them, and of her 

 the Badshah Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluk Shah was born. It is stated in the 

 Mulhakdt [appendices, additions — the name of a work probably] that the 

 name Tughluk originally was Kutlugh, which word is Turkish ; and the people 

 of Hind, from usage, inverted it, and have turned Kutlugh into Tughluk, 

 and some few have turned Kutlugh into Kutlu." This is all Firishtah says 

 of this so-called " Patau" dynasty. 



I shall content myself with one more reference to Bow's translation. 

 It is under the reign of the Afghan ruler whom he styles " Shere", p. 159, 

 vol. 2, and in the paragraph alluded to, that he contradicts his own former 

 statements. He says : " The original name of Shere was Ferid. His 

 father was Hussein, of the Soor tribe of the Afghans of Roh." He then 

 attempts to describe Roh, but blunders even in that : — " The original seat 

 of the Afghans was Roh, which, in their language, signifies a mountainous 

 country. It extended, they say, in length, from Sewad and Bijore, to the 

 town of Sui in the dominions of Buckurast." The original is — ' to the town 

 of Siwi, which is a dependency of Bakar.' Dow turned the proper name 

 " Bakar" and the verb " ast", is, into a proper name. He then continues, " and 

 in breadth, from Hussein to Kabul.'''' The original is " from Hasan Abdal 

 to Kabul." The Afghan writers, from the earliest down to Hafiz Rah- 

 mat Khan, thus describe the extent and boundaries of Roh ; in fact, other 

 writers take their descriptions from Afghan accounts, but let it be particu- 

 larly noticed that Ghur is not contained within the boundaries given. Dow 

 then further states : " This tract, in its fertile vallies, contained many 

 separate tribes. Among the number of these was that of Soor, who derive 

 themselves from the princes of Ghor, whose family held the empire after 

 the extinction of the race of Ghizni. One of the sons of the Ghorian 

 family, whose name was Mahommed Soor, having left his native country, 



