

350 H. G. Eaverty— Beply to 'Histy. and Geogr. of Bengal, M. Ill: [No. 3, 



Buda'iin is spelt e^l ^ and also e^|*j# Budan'un, the first w being nasal • 

 Sursuti— (V-v** ; Siwastan — oIxw^a*,, anc [ a i so Shiwastan, from Sanskrit 

 fw*, a Hindu deity ; Jamadi l£*L*$> is written in the Irani idiom • some- 

 times Jamada ; 'Arif — ojl*, 'Arifain — ^Jj> ; Tazkirah or Tazkarah, both 

 are correct ; Shajr and Shijr both signify a tree in Arabic, hence Shajarah 

 or Shijarah may be used ; Saraj, which I have also met with spelt Sirdj, 

 signifies a lamp, luminary, or the sun, hence Saraj -ud-Din, the father, means 

 " the Luminary of the Faith," as his son's name, Minhaj -ud-Din signifies 

 " the Highway or Eoad of the Faith" ; Wana-Ganga — &^J, ; Giidawuri [ask 

 a Madras! how he pronounces it] — <^>I3j^ ; Basin — ^x*»|; ; Chhotah Nag-pur 

 jjSb %4^ ; Jhar Kundah i&f yt^ and S^ ;l^ [signifying bushy, a forest, 

 the forest of Baijnath] and is also written in some of the works quoted in 

 my Translation with g — $Z& f^ ; and Karmah-nasah is written A^li-Lo^ 

 and Karam-Nasa L*»IJ {J>. 



The Haft-Iklim of Mr. Blochmann may be different, but my copies of 

 that " excellent work" have precisely what I have given at page 593. As 

 to when the author finished his work, or where he got his Hindi Z from 

 may be seen from that work. Perhaps Mr. Blochmann will examine one. 

 Possibly he may have seen a small letter -k written over letters, which 

 are intended to express j 3 6. 



The word iybb, as any Dictionary will show, means " depression," 

 "lowliness," "inferiority," as well as "end" and "extremity." 



Arkhnak is " the printer's devil's" work for Arkhank, also written 

 t^L) — Bakhang — anglicized Arracan. 



I have lived too long in the Dakhaw ever to write it Dak'hin, and I 

 have never written it Dak'han ; neither could I think of writing Abu Bakr 

 where Abu Bikr is meant. 



Mr. Blochmann taxes me with making " dangerous innovations" in 

 spelling proper and geographical names, but he has a peculiar method of 

 his own, and I must point some of them out. I take them merely from 

 the first volume of his Translation of the Ain-i-Akbari, to which he so 

 often refers me : — 



'^'Mulla Muhdrik;' also " Qutbuddin MuUrih Shah" and "Shaikh 

 Mubdrik," even on the covers, for Shaikh Mubarak, Mulla Mubarak, &c. 

 " Bahtas'^' instead of Bohtas ; " Pashawar", instead of Peshawar [;>&& is 

 written in Pushto with its peculiar k'h or s'h. "Harat" f or Hirat "[It 



* Major Eaverty-s original has suMns above the ddl, the medial and the final 

 nun. Lower down, in 'drifmn, the suMns stand above the/* and the nun. Types with 

 fixed diacritical marks are not to be had here.— Ed. 



