1870.] Translations from the Tdrikh i Ftruz Shdhi. 3 



the property of certain classes, and gave the order that all villages 

 which people held as milk, or in 1 dm, or toaqf, should forthwith be 

 resumed and made Imperial Domain land. The officers, moreover, 

 were to treat the people as tyrannically as possible ; they should think 

 of pretexts for extorting money, and leave no one in possession of gold. 

 After a short time matters had gone so far, that only in the houses of 

 the Maliks, and Amirs, and officers, and Multani merchants, and... . not 

 even so much money remained .. ..and from his excessive demands 



only a few thousand tankahs to him in Dilhi all pensions, 



grants of land, and legacies in the whole kingdom they opened (?), 



and the whole people had so much to do with earning their livelihood., 

 that no one had even time to pronounce the word ' rebellion.'] 



[Secondly, with the view of making revolts impossible, the Sultan 

 appointed informers fmunhiydn), and their number was so great, that 

 he knew the good and bad things that men did. People could not utter 

 a syllable without his knowledge ; and whatever happened in the 

 houses of the Amirs and the Maliks, of wellknown and great men, of 

 the officers and collectors, was, in the course of time, brought to the 



full of blunders, and a few words have remained untranslated. Ed. Bibl. Ind. 

 p. 283, 1. 2 from below, for tijJLioo, read jJjUoo bikashdnand Fordj^ 

 in the last line, read ^b| • and as &J& (.&> Kjj (iJLL^j has no sense, we may 

 perhaps read ^jJoo Um In) /iLL^tyJ, or Jj*Lk .j ; and leave no one in possession 

 of gold. 



P. 284, 1. 2, sdhdn is unclear to me. After an qadre, a sentence with 

 &f is wanting. For Jchdnah we expect khdnahd, though it is in accordance 

 with the clumsy style of Zia i Baranf, Mafniz on 1. 3 is a queer word, 

 and should be either Bjjj^b bddrozah, or &^\)\ rozinah, daily allowance, 

 the same as wazijah. Another queer word is ^/o|Vff on 1. 14, for which 

 we have perhaps to read cux>|-i fine, mulct. For ^)\^j j UL&. on 1. 4 from 

 below, read c)\^\ /^l^ala. as on p. 2S5, 1.2 from below. For midddand on 

 1. 9 of the same page (28 A), we should perhaps read middd, if daur be the sub- 

 ject ; for the plural mikardand in the following line is used honoris caus& of the 

 Sultan. The word al£j is doubtful. 



The word daur is evidently the name which 'Alauddin gave his corps of 

 spie3, and is the same as naubat, a watch, a patrol. 



On p. 285, 1. 13 dele j before &]£ An amusing alteration by the printer's 

 devil and his ' superintendent' may be found on p. 287, 1. 3, where for fitnah. 

 ancjezi, we read fitnah i Angrezi ! ! 



