from camp with his (Colonel Gardiner’s) son James, who had accompanied him to Lucknow.  The prince and the colonel mounted their horses, and rode after him; but they were so much heavier and older than the young ones, that they soon gave up the chase in despair.  Sulaiman Shikoh insisted upon the colonel immediately fighting him, after the fashion of the English, with swords or pistols, but was soon persuaded that the honour of the house of Timur would be much better preserved by allowing the offending parties to marry ![18] The King of Oudh was delighted to find that the old man had been so punished; and the Queen no less so to find herself so suddenly and unexpectedly relieved from all dread of her sister’s return.  All parties wrote to my friend Kam Baksh, who was then at Jubbulpore;[19] and he came off with their letters to me to ask whether I thought the incident might not be turned to account in getting the pension for his father restored.[20]

Notes: 

1.  Govardhan is a very sacred place of pilgrimage, full of temples, situated in the Mathura (Muttra) district, sixteen miles west of Mathura, Regulation V of 1826 annexed Govardhan to the Agra district.  In 1832 Mathura was made the head-quarters of a new district, Govardhan and other territory being transferred from Agra.

2.  The Puranas, even when narrating history after a fashion, are cast in the form of prophecies.  The Bhagavat Purana is especially devoted to the legends of Krishna.  The Hindi version of the 10th Book (skandha) is known as the ‘Prem Sagar’, or ‘Ocean of Love’, and is, perhaps, the most wearisome book in the world.

3.  This flight occurred during the struggles following the battle of Plassy in 1757, which were terminated by the battle of Buxar in 1764, and the grant to the East India Company of the civil administration of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa in the following year.  Shah Alam bore, in weakness and misery, the burden of the imperial title from 1759 to 1806.  From 1765 to 1771 he was the dependent of the English at Allahabad.  From 1771 to 1803 he was usually under the control of Maratha chiefs, and from the time of Lord Lake’s entry into Delhi, in 1803 he became simply a prisoner of the British Government.  His successors occupied the same position.  In 1788 he was barbarously blinded by the Rohilla chief, Ghulam Kadir.

4.  Akbar II.  His position as Emperor was purely titular.

5.  The name is printed as Booalee Shina in the original edition.  His full designation is Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdullah ibn Sina, which means ’that Sina was his grandfather.  Avicenna is a corruption of either Abu Sina or Ibn Sina.  He lived a strenuous, passionate life, but found time to compose about a hundred treatises on medicine and almost every subject known to Arabian science.  He died in A.D. 1037.  A good biography of him will be found in Encyclo.  Brit., 11th ed., 1910.

6.  Otherwise called Eurasians, or, according to the latest official decree, Anglo-Indians.