[45] Muhammad Hadi says in his preface, p. 6, that Shah-Jahan's grandfather Akbar gave him the name of Sultan Khurram, 'Prince Joy,' because his birth made the world glad. It was noted that the child was born in the first millennium, and also that, like his father, he was born in the same month as the Prophet.
[46] Gladwin says they were twins, but this seems a mistake. They were both born about the time of Akbar's death.
[47] In MS. No. 310 of Ethé's Cat. of I.O. MSS. Sa`id Khan is described as giving as his reason for asking for M. Ghazi that he had adopted him as his son. Price's Jahangir, p. 21, says the same thing.
[48] This should be Jan, and is so in I.O. MS. 181.
[49] See Ma'asiru-l-umara, iii, 932. The meaning of the half and half is that the two men were made coadjutors.
[50] In R.A.S. and I.O. MSS. the following passage is a verse. See also Mr. Lowe's translation, p. 16.
[51] Wird means 'daily practice,' and may be the word intended here.
[52] Cf. this with the fuller details in Price, p. 22. Following Blochmann, I take Shab-i-jum`a to mean Thursday and not Friday night.
[53] The text has `Abdu-l-Ghani, but this, as the MSS. show and Blochmann has pointed out, is a mistake for `Abdu-n-Nabi. `Abdu-n-Nabi was strangled, and the common report is that this was done by Abu-l-fazl. If this be true it is rather surprising that Jahangir does not mention it as an excuse for killing Abu-l-fazl. Cf. the account of Miran Sadr Jahan in Price, p. 24. The "Forty Sayings" is a book by Jami. See Rieu, Cat. i, 17, and also Dr. Herbelot s.v. Arbain.
[54] This should be Ghiyas Beg. He was father of Nurjahan. According to the Ma'asiru-l-umara (i, 129), he was commander of 1,000 under Akbar.
[55] Topkhana-i-rikab, lit. stirrup-arsenal. It means light artillery that could accompany royal progresses. See Bernier, and Irvine, A. of M., 134.
[56] Text, topchi, which seems properly to mean a gunner, but the number is preposterous. Cf. Blochmann, p. 470, and Price, p. 28. Price's original has 6,000 topchi mounted on camels, and has paytakht, i.e. the capital. Erskine has "To have always in readiness in the arsenal arms, and accoutrements for 50,000 matchlock men." This seems reasonable, for even if Jahangir ordered 50,000 musketeers, he would not have required them to be kept in the arsenal. It seems to me that though chi in Turki is the sign of the agent (nomen agentis) it is occasionally used by Indian writers as a diminutive. Thus topchi here probably means a small gun or a musket, and in Hindustani we are familiar with the word chilamchi, which means a small basin. At p. 301 of the Tuzuk, four lines from foot, we have the word ilchi, which commonly means an ambassador--an agent of a people--used certainly not in this sense, and apparently to mean a number of horses. It is, however, doubtful if ilchi here be the true reading.