1876.] H. G. Kaverty— i^Zy to'Sisty. and Geogr. of Bengal, No. Ill: 337 



mann Allah, but I think Mr. Blochmann would have some difficulty in 

 showing me the word written with a madd, viz. tiojf. He certainly cannot 

 show it to me in any copy of the Tabakat-i-Nasiri. I never saw it so 

 written. 



As to what is given as the legend on coins he is said to have issued, 

 and his being merely called I'-bak therein, which Mr. Blochmann deems 

 quite sufficient to refute me by my own remarks, it is evident that, before 

 Mr. Blochmann had calmly read my statements, he penned this portion of 

 his " Contributions." I read in the legend given at page 525 of my 

 Translation the words— Sultan Kutb-ud-Din, I'-bak, as plain as it is possi- 

 ble to print. He would scarcely have put shil or shall upon his coins. Did 

 Timiir add the word Lang to the legend on his ? Of course not : but I 

 will not give the legend here. See the additional note to my Transla- 

 tion, on the subject of the legends on these coins : end of Nasir-ud-Din, 

 Mahmiid Shah's reign, page 717. 



I do not consider that Mr. Thomas or any one else has " set this ques- 

 tion at rest" with respect to " Aibeg ;" and had Mr. Blochmann not been 

 quite so hasty he might have read a note in my Translation, a little farther 



on, where I have remarked upon the number of other Maliks styled <£Uj| 



some five or six or more, including Ulugh-Khan's brother. I have endea- 

 voured to get a real Turkish scholar to give me his ideas upon several Tur- 

 kish titles in the Tabakat-i-Nasiri, and perhaps, before this is sent off, I 

 may receive his reply. 



As to there being no such word as shil in Persian meaning limp, weak, 

 soft, paralyzed, &c. [" Contributions," page 278] I do not agree with 

 Mr. Blochmann. It is not Turani, and may be Irani, or possibly local, 

 and peculiar to the Farsiwans of Afghanistan, but is commonly used ; and 

 another Persian word—shul — is used with it in the sense mentioned. As 

 to Mr. Blochmann's " rare Arabic word shal or shall [which " rare" word 

 I have also referred to in my note, page 513], he says it means " having a 

 withered hand," but I say it means a hand or foot paralyzed or powerless, 

 &c., on the authority of an excellent Lexicon in Persian, which explains it 

 thus : — 



*-«U j^iU) j(j Jg y aS di-ij* \) ^Jj ^»«o ^j** j 

 I think I may venture to assert that Sultan Mu'izz-ud-Din, Muham- 

 mad, son of Sam, was rather unlikely to have purchased a slave with the 

 whole of one hand paralyzed : a finger broken or paralyzed would have been 

 no very great detriment, but how could a one-hand paralyzed man fight on 

 horseback ? See too the wonderful feats Dow and Briggs — not Firishtah 

 make him perform. As to its being " a rare Arabic word" I beg to say 

 that it is a most common one among the Afghans : in fact, they rarely ever 

 use another word, except by adding J^ shull to it — " shall-o-shull" See 

 my Pushto Dictionary, page 656. 



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