Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.316

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rains in the rainy season, and it supplies the people of the city with water throughout the year.' "—*Vide* C. Stephen's *Arch. of Delhi*, p. 83; *vide* also *Malfūzāt-i-Tīmūrī*, Elliot iii, p. 441. Stephen says that Yazdī, who copies and not seldom distorts *Malfūzāt-i-Tīmūrī* calls the Ḥauẓ "a deep and wide well, one of the works of Firūz Shāh." Here Stephen obviously misinterprets Yazdī, who uses the word دریاچه (darīāchah), which means a small river to which he compares the Ḥauẓ Khāṣ. Now, "chāh," when separately used, means a well. Stephen confuses this meaning of the word with its signification as a diminutive particle (*cf. dar*, door, and *darichah*, small door). See Yazdī's *Ẓafar-Nāmah*, MS. in the Bohār Collection, leaves 246, 247.