Khwand-amlr's grandson 'Abdu'1-lah who may be the scribe " Mir 'Abdu'1-lah " of the Ayin-i-akbari (Blochmann's trs. p. 109). 'Abdu'l-lah's transcript (from which a portion is now absent,) after having been in Sir Henry Elliot's possession, has become B.M. Or, 1999. It is noticed briefly by Professor Dowson {I.e. iv, 288), but he cannot have observed that the " old, worm-eaten " little volume contains Babur's Revenue List, since he does not refer to it.
c. Agreement and variation in copies of the List.
The figures in the two copies (Or. 1999 and Add. 26,202) of the Tabaqat-i-bdburi are in close agreement. "They differ, however, from those in the Haidarabad Codex, not only in a negligible unit and a ten of tankas but in having 20,000 more tankas from Oudh and Baraich and 30 laks of tankas more from Transsutlej.
The figures in the two copies of the Babur-nama, viz. the Haidarabad Codex and the Kehr-Ilminsky imprint are not in agreement throughout, but are identical in opposition to the variants (20,000 t. and 30 /.) mentioned above. As the two are independent, being collateral descendants of Babur's original papers, the authority of the Haidarabad Codex in the matter of the List is still further enhanced.
d. Varia.
(1) The place-names of the List are all traceable, whatever their varied forms. About the entry L:knu [or L:knur] and B:ks:r [or M:ks.:r] a difficulty has been created by its variation in manuscripts, not only in the List but where the first name occurs s.a. 934 and 935AH. In the Haidarabad List and in that of Or. 1999 L:knur is clearly written and may represent (approximately) modern Shahabad in Rampur. Erskine and de Courteille, however, have taken it to be Lakhnau in Oudh. [The distinction of Lakhnaur from Lakhnau in the historical narrative is discussed in Appendix T.]
(2) It may be noted, as of interest, that the name Sarwar is an abbreviation of Sarjiipar which means "other side of Sarju" (Saru, Goghra ; E. and D.'s H. of I. i, 56, n.4).
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