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1882.] of the Tabakdt-i-lSTdsiri. 
itself, generally have Jvzjdni and sometimes Jurjani as above 
If the point of j z be left out, as is very liable to be the case, like the 
points of other letters, by copyists, it is but simple j r. Words con¬ 
i’ 
taining long u j are often written with the short vowel zammcih or 
9 9 m ... 9 
pesh — — instead of j ; and hence, in some few copies, it is 
Jurjani, while sometimes it is written both ways in the same MS. 
Since writing note 7 , at page 321 of my “ Translation,” giving an 
account of the Amir Mas’ud’s inroad into the northern parts of Ghur, 
when on his way from Ghaznin to Hirat, I have considered that the word 
given by our author referred to the tract of country described in that note 
as the Guzganan, or the Guzgans, by Tajziks, but which Arabs, and 
people of Arab descent, who usey ^ for the Tajzik g ^, turn into Juzjanan, 
and that the word he uses in connexion with his own name refers to 
one of the Guzgans, and that he should be styled 4 the Guzgani’ or 4 the 
Juzjani.’ As the most trustworthy copies of the text, the best and most 
correctly written, had Jurjani, I considered it necessary to follow them as 
I had begun, and to mention the matter more in detail in the Memoir of 
the Author’s life. 
Guzgan, as the native inhabitants styled it, and Arabs Juzjan, is not 
the name of a single town, village, or fortress, but of two or more of the 
small districts or tracts of country among the mountains, on the north¬ 
west frontier of the country of Ghur, and north of Hirat, beyond the 
Murgh-Ab—the Jibal of Hirat, as he himself styles it,—but its exact posi¬ 
tion, and the localities of most of the great fortresses mentioned by our 
author in the last Section of his work, are at present unknown to us. The 
Guzganan, or Guzgans, were the appanage of the Amir Muhammad, brother 
of Mas’ud ; and it was from thence that he was brought when he assumed 
the throne of Ghaznin after the death of his father. Notwithstanding the 
details which our author gives respecting the great fortresses of Ghur, 
Gharjistan, and other parts, including the fortress of Tulak, which appears 
to have been his own place of residence at the time, and also the home of 
his maternal relatives (see 44 Translation,” page 1066 and note 5 ), which he 
helped to defend against the Mughal invaders, and which must have been 
situated in one of the Guzgans, he never once, throughout his whole work, 
refers to Guzgan or Juzjan, except in connexion with his own name. See 
also notes to pages 186 and 232. 
After the Ghuris obtained possession of Lahor in 582 H., and they had 
seized the Sultan, Khusrau Malik, the last of the Sultans of Ghaznin, our 
author’s father was made Kazi of the Ghurian army stationed at Labor, 
under the Sipah-Salar, ’Ali-i-Kar-makk ; and twelve camels were assigned 
him for the conveyance of the establishment of his office, his tribunal, etc., 
on the line of march. 
