Baba Qashqa?" (Pidrat Baba Qashqa magar man kushla anil). (2) Of the death of Baba Qashqa's brother " KiikI", Abu'1-fazl records that he was killed in Hindustan by Muhammad SI. M. BSi-qara (952ah.), and that Kiiki's nephew Shah Muh. (see p. 668) retaliated (955 AH.) by arrow-shooting one of Muh. SI. Mirza's sons. This was done when Shah Muh. was crossing Minarpass on his return journey from sharing HumaySn's exile in Persia (see Jauhar). (3) Hajl Muh. Khan Kiiki and Shah Muhammad Khan appear to have been sons of Baba Qashqa and nephews of "KukI" (supra). They were devoted servants of Humayiin but were put to death by him in 958AH.-1551 ad. (cf. Erskine's H. of I. Humayun). (4) About the word Kiiki dictionaries afford no warrant for taking it to mean foster-brother (kokah). Chingiz Khan had a beg known as Kuk or Kouk (or Guk) and one of his own grandsons used the same style. It may link the Baba Qashqa group with the Chingiz Khanid Kiiki, either as descendants or as hereditary adherents, or as both. (See Abu'l-ghazi's Shajarat-i-Turk, trs. Desmaisons, Index s.n, Kouk and also its accounts of the origin of several tribal groups-) P. 416. The line quoted by 'Abdu'1-lah is from the Anwar-i-suhaili, Book II, Story i. Eastwick translates it and its immediate context thus : "People follow the faith of their kings." " My heart is like a tulip scorched and by sighings flame ; " In all thou seest, their hearts are scorched and stained the same." (H.B.) The offence of the quotation appears to have been against Khalifa, and might be a suggestion that he followed Babur in breach of Law by using wine. P. 487 n. 2. The following passages complete the note on wulsa quoted by Erskine from Col. Mark Wilks' Historical Sketches and show how the word is used : " During the absence of Major Lawrence from Trichinopoly, the town had been completely depopulated by the removal of the whole Wulsa to seek for food elsewhere, and the enemy had been earnestly occupied in endeavouring to surprise the garrison." (Here follows Erskine's quotation see in loco p. 487). " The people of a district thus deserting their homes are called the Wulsa of that district, a state of utmost misery, involving precaution against incessant war and unpitying depredation so peculiar a description as to require in any of the languages of Europe a long circumlocution, is expiessed in all the languages of Deckan and the south of India by a single word. No proofs can be accumulated from the most profound research which shall describe the immemorial condition of the people of India with more precision than this single word. It is a bright distinction that the Wulsa never departs on the approach of a British army when this is unaccompanied by Indian allies." By clerical error in the final para, of my note ftlvash is entered for iilvan f Molesworth, any desolating calamity]. P. 540 n. 4. An explanation of Babur's use of Shah-zada as Tahmasp's title may well be that this title answers to the Timurid one Mir-zada, Mirza. If so, Babur's change to " Shah " (p. 635) may recognize supremacy by victory, such as he had claimed for himself in 913 ah when he changed his Timurid "Mirza" for "Padshah". P. 557. Husain Kashifi, also, quotes Firdausi's couplet in the Anwar-i-suhaih (Cap.'l, Story XXI), a book dedicated to Shaikh Ahmad Suliaili (p. 277) and of earlier date than the Babur-nama. Its author died in 910 ah.-1505 AD. P. 576 n. 1. Tod's statement (quoted in my n. 1) that "the year of Rana Sanga's defeat (933 AH.) was the last of his existence " cannot be strictly correct because Babur's statement (p. 598) of intending attack on him in Chitor allows him to have been alive in 934 ah. (1528 ad.). The death occurred, "not without suspicion of poison," says Tod, when the Rana had moved against Irij then held for Babur ; it will have been long enough before the end of 934 ah. to allow an envoy from his son Bikramajit to wait on Babur in that year (pp. 603, 612). Babur's record of it may safelv be inferred lost with the once-existent matter of 934 ah. P. 631. My husband has ascertained that the "Sayyid Dakni " of p. 631 is Sayyid Shah Tahir Dakni (Deccani) the Shiite apostle of Southern India, who in 935 AH. was sent to Babur with a letter from Burhan Nizam Shah of Ahmadnagar, in which (if there were not two embassies) congratulation was made on
