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D. ON THE RESCUE PASSAGE                         xv
work on it is still tentative, even with the literary gains since the Seventies.
Few of the grounds which weigh with us for the rejection of the Rescue passage were known to Dr. Ilminsky or M. de Courteille; the two good Codices bring each its own and varied help; Teufel's critique on the ' Fragments,' though made without acquaintance with those adjuncts as they stand in Kehr's own volume, is of much collateral value; several useful oriental histories seem not to have been available for M. de Courteille's use. I may add, for my own part, that I have the great advantage of my husband's companionship and the guidance of his wide acquaintance with related oriental books. In truth, looking at the drawbacks now removed, an earlier acceptance of the passage appears as natural as does today's rejection.
GROUNDS FOR REJECTING THE RESCUE PASSAGE.
The grounds for rejecting the passage need here little more than recapitulation from my husband's article in the JASB. 1910, p. 221, and are as follows;
i. The passage is in neither of the Waqi'at-i-bdburl.
ii. The dreams detailed are too a propos and marvellous for credence.
iii. Khwaja Yahya is not known to have had a son, named Ya'qub.
iv. The Bdbur-ndma does not contain the names assigned to the rescuers.
'v. The Khans were not in Andijan and Babur did not go there.
vi. He did not set out for Khurasan after spending 4 months with The Khans but after Ahmad's death (end of 909 ah.), while Mahmud was still in Eastern Turkistan and after about a year's stay in Sukh.
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