1865.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 117 



authorship only that differences of opinion exist regarding these 

 memoires, the two works are called indiscriminately, the Tuzuk-i- 

 Jahdngiri, and the Jahdngir-ndmeh, the word Tuzuk being spelled in 

 every conceivable way, — &)y, ^jy, <-£>j>> and £)y ; but I can find 

 no authority whatever beyond that of scribes for entitling either work 

 the Tuzuk. The autobiography of Jahangfr " the greater portion of 

 which" to use the words of 'Abdal-Hamid Lahauri, " his Majesty 

 wrote with his own hand," is styled by every Muhammadan author 

 whom I have ascertained to have quoted it, the Jahdngir-ndmeh, and 

 by that name alone does it seem to have been known in the reigns of 

 the author, Shahjahan, and Aurung-zeb, and how the title tuzuk 

 came into use I do not know. Its application, however, in later 

 years, seems to have been very general, as it is written, — but always on 

 the cover, the fly-leaf, or in the rubric — in several of the copies consulted 

 by Mr. Morley, and in some instances, to ensure accuracy, somehow, 

 one name is written inside and the other outside, But the most 

 singular error of all, is that which appears on the title page of the 

 text so lately published by Sayiid Ahmad, who, as if desirous of afford- 

 ing his readers the greatest choice has entitled the work : " The Tuzuk- 

 i-Jahdngiri, which is called also the Jahdngir-ndmeh and the Iqb&l- 

 ndmeh-i-Jahdngiri. ' ' 



I should have found it difficult to account for this mistake ; but an 

 editorial foot-note to the first page of Mohammad Hadi's introduction, 

 I think explains how the Sayiid was misled. He there states, and 

 states correctly that the emperor wrote his own memoires down to the 

 middle of the seventeenth year of his reign, after which he employed 

 Motamad Khan, who is the author of the Iqbal-ndmeh, as his ama- 

 nuensis. The same statement is made by Grladwin : but Mr. Morley 

 objects that he has given no authority for it. His authority is the 

 very best, the Emperor himself, who at the point where his own 

 portion of the work breaks off, says : — " By reason of the weakness 

 which for two years I have experienced, and which still afflicts me, 

 my brain and heart did not support me in drafting the events and 

 occurrences [of my life]. About this time Motamad Khan returned 

 from service in the Deccan, and had the good fortune to make his 

 obeisance, and since he was one of those servants who best understood 

 my temper, and one of my most intelligent pupils, and in addition, 



