History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c11.120

c11.120

⁵⁸ Barani calls these foreigners amirān-i-sadah (امیران سده) and he is followed by the author of the Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi. Professor J. N. Sarkar's MS. of the Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi has amir sadah. Badāoni writes amir sadah and uses the word Yuzbāshi which means commander of one hundred. The Lucknow Text of Firishta has amir Sadgan, but Briggs turns it into Ameer Jadeedā which means new amirs. We do not know on what authority he has made that alteration. It, certainly, does not exactly indicate the character of these men. Nizam-al-Din Ahmad clearly says that at that period (speaking of the reign of Muhammad Tughluq and the affairs of the amirs sadah) the Yuzbāshis were called Amirs Sadah. Yūz is a Turkish word which means one hundred and Yūzbāshī is a commander of one hundred. Tabqāt, Calcutta Text, p. 215. Redhouse, Turkish Dictionary, p. 878. Elliot translates the amirān-i-sadah as foreign amīrs or chiefs.