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XXII. Memoir on the Diplomatic Relations between the Courts of Dehli and Constantinople in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

Joseph de Hammer
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The first intimation of any intercourse by embassies between the courts of Dehli and Constantinople occurs in the reign of Suliman the Lawgiver, in the year 1536; when Burhân, the son of Sikandar, the king of Dehli, sought refuge at the Ottoman Porte from the displeasure of Humayun. In Ferdi's excellent history of Sultan Suliman'S reign is the following account of this event:

“Burhan Beg, the son of Sikandar, king of Hindustan, ruined by the “invasions of the Jagataïan armies, fled to the Sublime Porte; where he “was honoured by being allowed to kiss the imperial hand, and was pro-“vided with a daily pension of three hundred aspers.”

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Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , July 1830 , pp. 462 - 486
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1830

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page 462 note * Manuel de Faria y Sousa's Portuguese Asia, vol. i., chap. 8,Google Scholar where Bahadar is changed into Badiro, and Humayun into Omaun.

page 463 note * Vide Appendix, No. 1.

page 467 note * This letter, which in its full extent is translated in the Appendix (No. 2), is taken from the valuable collection of state papers of the Reis Effendi Isari Abdullah.

page 468 note * Dow, , vol. iii., p. 180.Google Scholar

page 468 note † Vide Appendix, No. 3.

page 469 note * This is a blunder of the copyist; the 21st Rejeb of the year A.H. 1059, which began on the 15th January A.D. 1649, answers to the 21st July, which was on a Saturday.

page 469 note † Nos. V. and VI.

page 470 note * This date shews also the blunder before adverted to; the 23d of Rejeb was not a Tuesday; it was a Monday.

page 470 note † Abdipasha, the Nishanji, denies the twenty-five maidens; in opposition to Haji Khalfa, who relates the same fact in his “Fislika; or, Historical Synopsis.”

page 472 note * Commonly called by European writers Facardīn.

page 473 note * There is a pun, which will not bear translating, between jigardār courageous, (from , which signifies both liver and courage), and mustereeh, which signifies quiet and inflated.

page 474 note * Besides many others, he presented a jewelled sword and a jewel-studded dagger, the diamonds of both of which shone in a great blaze. The mistakes which had happened at the nomination of Zulfikar, have been related above, among the events of the year 1063.

page 479 note * Kuzzulbashes, the Persians, who are generally Shīas.

page 479 note † Murad IV.

page 484 note * An orientalism, meaning only the luminous mind of the King of Hindustan.

page 486 note * Mukhalassat intitma