The Nāṣirī Generations 182.3

182.3

A few lines under the passage in question, thus incorrectly translated, added to, and altered from the original, Firishtah refers to the Kitab-i-Yamini, and quotes our author's work as his authority with reference to the conversion of the Ghurians to Islam, and says: “but the author of the Tabakat-i-Nasiri, and Fakhr-ud-Din, Mubarak Shah, Marw-ar-Rudi — i. e. of the town of Marw-ar-Rud — who composed a history,” &c. [which Firishtah never saw, but learnt of it from our author. See page 300]. Dow leaves this passage out entirely: but Briggs, who appears to have been equally smitten with “Afgan or Patan” monomania, translates [page 50], the last part of the sentence, “Fakhr-ood Deen Mubarick Lody who wrote a history,” &c. He read Marw-ar-Rudi — as Lody [Ludi], and so made a “Patan” of him too! At page 132, Dow has: “The generality of the kings of Ghor, according to the most authentic historians, could be traced up, by the names, for three-and-twenty, and DOWNWARDS nine generations, from Ali to MAMOOD, the son of Subuctagi,” &c.