The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c16.s12.6
The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehlī c16.s12.6
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c16.s12.6
The existence of the Arabic *kh* (which is also Persian) and *ṭ* should cause no difficulty : the term was arabicized probably under the Ghaznavids whose *wazīr*s used Arabic (*‘Utbi*, pp. 366, 367). The nearest transliteration of *khot* would be *khūṭ* which can be read either as *khoṭ* or *khūṭ*. This would not be a solitary instance of such transliteration, e.g., Bahāṭiyah for Bhaṭiyah, which is common in *‘Utbī* and has been copied in other chronicles. These examples can be multiplied.