Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibl. Nat., tom. iv.

[170] For a similar form of the story see Gobineau, Histoire des Perses,
Paris, 1869, vol. ii. pp. 9, 10, where the story is given on the
authority of a Parsi work, the "Tjehar-e-Tjemen" (i.e. Cahar-i-Caman,
"the four lawns").

[171] For the romance about this man see Th. Noeldeke, Tabari, pp.
474-478.

[172] Lithogr. ed., p. 23. See also Malcolm, op. cit. i. 196; Red. p.
107.

[173] Deguignes, Hist. Gen. des Huns, des Turcs, des Mogols, et des
autres Tartares occidentaux, etc. Paris, 1756-1758, vol. ii. pp. 209,
223; Malcolm, op. cit. i. pp. 211, 218.

[174] See Elphinstone's Hist. of India, Lond., 1841, vol. ii. pp. 10-12;
also Elliot, The History of India as told by its own historians, Lond.
1867-1877, vol. ii. pp. 332-335, 337, where the story is not so romantic
as in Rueckert's poem.

[175] Taken from Red. p. 183, where it is given as from Rumi. See above,
p. 6.

[176] Gesta Roman. ed. Herm. Oesterly. Berl. 1872, c. 167. For
bibliography of this fable see W.A. Clouston, A Group of Eastern
Romances, 1889, pp. 563-566, pp. 448-452.

[177] Book of the Thousand and One Nights, by John Payne, Lond. 1894,
vol. v. p. 153.

[178] Ibid. p. 168.

[179] Ibid. p. 199.

[180] In Juedische Parabeln, vol. 26, p. 359; see also Bacher, Nizamis
Leben u. Werke, p. 117, n. 4.

[181] These episodes are outlined in Hammer, Red. p. 118; see Malcolm,
op. cit. i. 55, 56.

[182] We call attention to the fact that the fourth division of this
collection (pp. 392-439 in our edition) is made up of poems which really
belong to the Weisheit des Brahmanen.

[183] Jackson, Die iran. Religion in Grdr. iran. Phil. ii. pp. 629, 630.

[184] Elliot, Hist. of India, vol. v. pp. 160-175; 324-328.

[185] Elphinstone, Hist. of India, vol. ii. pp. 229-301 and note, where
the legend of the queen firing silver balls is given on the authority of
Xafi Xan. Elliot, op. cit. vi. 99-101.

[186] The History of the Late Revolution of the Empire of the Great
Mogul, Lond. 1671, pp. 106-131. See also Elliot, op. cit. vol. vii. pp.
220-224, and Elphinstone, op. cit. vol. ii. p. 425 seq., where a
slightly different account of the battle is given.

[187] Letter to Melchior Meyr, Dec. 25, 1836, cited by C. Beyer in
Nachgelassene Ged. Fr. Rueckerts. Wien, 1877, pp. 210, 211.

[188] Koch, Der Deutsche Brahmane, Breslau (Deutsche Buecherei, Serie iv.
Heft 23), p. 22.

[189] Ibid. pp. 18-22. For Rum