[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) › [Tabakat-i-Nasiri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty) › 182.4 # The Nāṣirī Generations 182.4 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 182.4 - **Language:** English ### [182.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.182.4) There is not one word of this in Firishtah. He gives the names of their ancestors as our author \[from whose work he copied them\] and a few others give them, name by name, down to Zuhak the Tazi; but not understanding, apparently, what followed in the original, Dow concocted on his own monarch passed — in the same manner as his own august fertile imagination — the nine generations down to Mamood of Ghaznin, to whom the Ghuris were no more related than they were to Dow himself. I have not a copy of Briggs’s version by me now, that I might compare it with Dow’s, but I should not be surprised if, in this instance also, he had drawn his inspiration from Dow. It was from this identical passage, probably, that the author of a "Student's Manual of Indian History" was led to imagine that Mahmud of Ghaznin was "the great ancestor of Shahab-ood-Deen." As Sam was the name of Rustam’s family, the Tazik Ghuris might have been, with equal plausibility, made descendants of Rustam, son of Zal, the Sigizi, and moreover Sigistan or Sijistan is close to Ghur, and several of the Ghuri chiefs were called Sam. I now pass from the "Ghuzni Patans" and the Turkish slave "Patans" to the Tughlak dynasty or "Tuglick Patans." - [Previous: 182.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.182.3) - [Next: 182.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.182.5) - [Up: 182](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.182) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.182.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.182.4) · Pramāṇa