The Nāṣirī Generations 182.5

182.5

Dow has, at page 295, vol. i. : "We have no true account of the pedigree of Tuglick. It is generally believed that his father, whose name was Tuglick, had been, in his youth, brought up as an imperial slave, by Balin. His mother was one of the tribe of Jits. But indeed the pedigrees of the Kings of the Patan empire make such a wretched figure in history," &c. Not one of the words in italics is in Firishtah : the whole sentence is his own concoction. Compare Briggs also. Under the reign of the Afghan ruler whom Dow styles "Shere" [vol. i. page 159], being more correct in his translation, he consequently contradicts some of his former assertions. He then describes Roh from Firishtah ["The Student's Manual of Indian History" however assures us that it is "only a town in the province of Peshawur"!!!], but makes several mistakes in doing so; but Firishtah himself blundered greatly when he said that the son of the Ghuri chief who took up his abode among the Afghans was called Muhammad-i-Suri, and that his posterity are known as the Sur Afghans. The Afghan tradition is very different. According to it, the chief's son was named Shah Husain, he was said to have been descended from the younger branch of the Ghurian race, while Muhammad-i-Suri, said to be the great-great grandfather of the two Sultans, Ghiyas-ud-Din and Mu’izz-ud-Din, was descended from the elder branch with whom the sovereignty lay.