1876.] H. G. Eaverty— Bejply to 'Kisty. and Geogr. of Bengal, No. Ill: 319 



Lhori,— 15>«- > — on the other side [Sindhis often substitute r for Z] were 

 always included in Sind. Mirza Shah Husain, the Arghun, entirely rebuilt 

 it [Bhakar] of exceeding great strength, and made it over to Sultan 

 Muhammad-i-Kokal-Tash. ' ' 



This is perfectly intelligible to any one who has seen Sakhar, Bhakar, 

 and Eohri, or looked at a map only. Notwithstanding the " learned" Abu- 

 1-Fazl, however, Mansurah was a totally different place to Bhakar, and 

 some 200 miles farther down the river. See page 540 of my Translation, 

 and note, last para, of that page. 



With reference to what is called [" Contributions," page 279,] my 

 " dangerous innovations" in spelling names, which in reality means' that 

 everything is innovating which may be contrary to Mr. Blochmann's 

 system, I foresaw, at the outset, that we should not agree in this matter, 

 we having, it appears, peculiar ideas on this point. Such Bengal names as 

 are derived from the Sanscrit may, in some instances, be not quite correct : 

 I have written them as my Persian authorities write them, and from my 

 system of transliteration — the Jonesian system — the original letters may 

 be known. In some few places " the printer's devil" has left his mark 

 upon them [as he has in my Paper on " the PatMn Dynasties," with a 

 vengeance], and Mr. Blochmann was in such a hurry that he did not wait 

 for the list of errata to my Translation, but thought he had made a dis- 

 covery. For example: the word Asif is an error for Asaf ; Bikrampiir 

 for Bikrampur, Jessore for Jellasore, and Dinjapur for Dinajpur. The last 

 will be found correctly at page 559. 



As to the rest, referred to in note f of the same page of the " Contri- 

 butions," I do not agree as to the word Salar being part of the name : it 

 refers to a chief — Sipah-Sdldr may be a proper name after the same fashion. 

 In Elliot [page 315, vol. ii.] the man's title and name are actually trans- 

 lated " victorious general." I shall expect with some curiosity Mr. Bloch- 

 mann's strictures or otherwise on this translation of " Minhaj-^s-Siraj." 

 j&& — Zafar — means victory — so it would be Sdldr victory — chief victory 

 — if translated. Arabic words — active participles in particular — are used as 

 Musalman names and titles, but it is new to find the noun Zafar — victory 

 — used for the purpose. 



Minhaj-ud-Din, and a score of others write Kalbi — it is used as well 

 as Kalpi. In Lexicons words beginning with *-> b and y p, will be both 

 found under the letter b. 



Kuhram — is spelt thus /*!j4^ with Kdf-i-Tdzi and rd-i- Hindi in a geo- 

 graphical account of the upper provinces from Dihli to the Indus, and from 

 thence to Sindh, Kandahar, and all round to Ladakh, and the Antarbed 

 Do-ab, which I should have published but for the years I have given to 

 the Tabakat-i-Nasiri. Elliot also spells it with h, not g. 



