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(3) Rup-naraln (Deo or Dev) is mentioned in Ajodhya Prasad's short history of Tirhut and Darbhanga, the Gulzari-Bihar (Calcutta 1869, Cap. v, 88) as the 9th of the Brahmap rulers of Tirhut and as having reigned for 25 years, from 917 to 942 Fasli{7). If the years were Hijri, 917-42AH. would be
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(4) Concerning the tanka the following modern description is quoted from Mr. R. Shaw's High Tartary (London 1871, p.464) "The tanga" (or tanka) "is a nominal coin, being composed of 25 little copper cash, with holes pierced, in them and called dahcheen. These are strung together and the quantity of them required to make up the value of one of these silver ingots" ("kooroos or yamboo, value nearly £17") "weighs a considerable amount. I once sent to get change for a kooroos, and my servants were obliged to charter a donkey to bring it home."
(5) The following interesting feature of Shaikh Zain's Tabaqat-i-baburi has been mentioned to me by my husband : Its author occasionally reproduces Babur's TurkI words instead of paraphrasing them in Persian, and does this for the noticeable passage in which Babur records his dissatisfied view of Hindustan (f.290^, in loco p. 518), prefacing his quotation with the remark that it is best and will be nearest to accuracy not to attempt translation but to reproduce the Padshah's own words. The main interest of the matter lies in the motive for reproducing the ipsissima verba. Was that motive deferential? Did the revelation of feeling and opinion made in the quoted passage clothe it with privacy so that Shaikh Zain reserved its perusal from the larger public of Hindustan who might read Persian but not TurkI ? Some such motive would explain the insertion untranslated of Babur's letters to HumayQn and to Khwaja Kalan which are left in TurkI by 'Abdu'r-rahlm Mlrza.2
■ Sir G. A. Grierson, writing in the Indian Antiquary (July 1885, p. 187), makes certain changes in Ajodhya Prasad's list of the Brahman rulers of Tirhut, on grounds he states.
2 Index s.n. Babur's letters. The passage Shaikh Zain quotes is found in Or. 1999, f.6s*, Add. 26,202, f.66*, Or. 5879, f. 79*.
