60 W. Irvine— Nadir Shcih and Muhammad Shah , a Hindi jpoem. [No. 1, 
para. 605 (Dher), is on a par socially with the camars. But 
T see that Rieu, “ Catalogue of the Persian MSS,” copying 
from one of the manuscripts of the Khulasatu-t-tawdrihh. 
styles its author Sujan Rae Dhir ; and as we, know that he 
was a Khatri, the epithet may denote here a sub-division 
of the Khatri caste. I do not find the word, however, 
in Tawarikh-i-qaum-i-hhatriyan by Amin Cand (Dihli, Fauq 
Kashi Press). 
40. Muhammad Khan, see ante, 24 (3). Shah Wall was, I think, 
the chief minister of Ahmad Shah, Durrani, and not of 
Nadir Shah. There seems some mistake here. 
52. Sirhind. — Nadir Shah reached Sirhind about the 7th Zu-l-qa‘dah 
(15th February, 1739), Grhulam ‘All Khan Muqaddamah-i- 
Shcih 1 Alam-namah, B. M. Addl. 24,028, fol. 595. 
53. Panipat. —Nadir Shah’s last march, before the fighting with 
the imperial army, was made on the 15th Zu-l-qa‘dah (23rd 
February, 1739), Elliot, VIII, 81. His last camp was 
at ‘Azimabad Talawari (or Taraori), between 9 and 10 
miles N.-W. of Karnal. Panipat is altogether a mistake. 
It lies about 26 miles south of Karnal, the place where 
Muhammad Shah was encamped, and Nadir Shah could 
not have passed beyond the emperor’s position without a 
pitched battle. 
53. J£hcin Vaurdn , see note to verse 4. His attack was made on 
the day that Nadir Sfiah had moved his camp from Talawari 
nearer to Karnal, namely on the 15th Zu-l-qa‘dah (23rd 
February, 1739), Elliot VIII, 81, Fraser, 156. 
58. All dini duhai dono d mahmand he. — The perversion does 
not seem greater than we find in our own early writers, for 
instance, at Baksar (October 1764) : “ Our seapoys gave 
the enemy a ding or huzza,” Caraccioli, “ Clive,” I, 59, and 
Orme writes of “ ding Mahomed,” “ Military Transactions,” 
II, 339. 
58. Khan Kh an an, that is Khan Dauran. 
59. Nararan. —As I can make nothing of this word, I read 
liazdrdn , thousands. [Perhaps a barbarous plural of nar 
‘man.’ Ed.]. 
60. Nishdn. — From its position in the line, I take this to be some 
kind of musical instrument; and supher I suppose to be 
a corruption of nafir. 
62. This retreat and the letter to Nizamu-l-mulk are both, I should 
say, unhistorical. 
