Twilight of the Sultanate c8.s3.26

c8.s3.26

⁹⁷ T.M.S., 181, has این واقعه در ماه ربیع الاول .... بود (*i.e.* this event took place in the month of Rabiul Avval). In a foot-note of the translation (p. 186) Basu remarks that MS. M-BM reads در هفتم ماه ربیع الاول (On the 7th of the month of Rabīul Avval). JNS has ماه در هفدهم (17th of the month). In E and D, IV, 45, the date is 8 Rabīul Avval while in Ferishta, I, 161, it is 15th. At another place Yahyā (T.M.S., 183) says that Khizr Khan took Sīrī on 15 Rabīul Avval. This date is agreed upon by Nizāmuddīn (T.A., I, 265) and Ferishta (I, 161). Badaonī, Ranking, I, 375 has 17 while E and D, IV, 45, in the translation of T.M.S., has 8 Rabiul Avval. Thomas, *Chronicles*, 326, has 7 Rabiul Avval, 817 H.