M H. G. Raverty— Who were the Pcdhdn Sultans ofDihli? [No. 1, 



him. Her mother advised Batani that Matu should he given to Shah 

 Husain in marriage before this became known. He demurred, as he did 

 not consider the fugitive youth a suitable match for his daughter. The 

 youth affirmed that his ancestors had been princes of Ghur, and asked him 

 to send some one into that country and verify the truth of his statement. 

 It was done, and Batani gave his consent ; and, shortly after, Bihi Matu 

 brought forth a son, which, being the fruit of an illicit amour was named 

 Ghal-zoe, glial in the Afghan language signifying ' a thief, and zoe, ' a son', 

 therefore signifying ' the thief-son', the illicit son. From this son is said 

 to be descended the great tribe of Ghalzi (zi, applied to the tribe is plural 

 of zoe), numbering, at this period, in all its divisions and subdivisions, near 

 upon half a million of souls, and one of the two most numerous tribes of all 

 the Afghan race. 



Another history in my possession, which I have not mentioned above 

 among the others, and the author of which was a member of the royal tribe — 

 the Sado-zis, the tribe to which the late Shah Shuja'-ul-Mulk belonged. 

 He besides quoting his own Afghan authorities, mentions the Tawarikh-i- 

 Salatin-i-Ludiah wa Suriah-i-Afaghinah, and the Risalah-i-Akhbar-i-Khad- 

 kah, and gives a detailed account of the early history of the Afghans. The 

 author styles Matu's father Tabrin only, never by the name of Batani, and 

 merely mentions that one of TabrWs daughters had a son before the nuptial 

 knot was tied, and adds " and it is said that there was an illicit connexion 

 between her and Mast 'All Ghuri," whoever he may have been, but he does 

 not, in consequence, turn the Ghuris into " Afghans or Patans". The 

 Ghalzis, on the other hand, deny altogether the truth of this tradition. 



Before mentioning anything more respecting Shah Husain, the " noble- 

 born" Ghuri youth, and the sons he is said to have been the father of, on 

 the authority of this tradition, I must by the following short table show, 

 from the tradition itself, what relationship existed between the said Shah 

 Husain, by virtue of whose traditional connection with Batani's, or Tabriz's 

 daughter, Sultan Mu'izz-ud-din Muhammad, son of Baha-ud-din Sam, 

 the conqueror of Rai Pithora, and the Ghuri Sultans, before and after 

 him, are all turned into Afghans likewise, and not only they, but their 

 Turkish slaves, and their slaves, and slave's slaves likewise. 



