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The history of India, as told by its own historians
The history of India as told by its own historians Author:Henry Miers Elliot Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 53 TA'RfKHU-S SUBUKTIGfN ABI/-L FAZL AL BAIHAKf. [the author1 himself gives his name at full length as Khwaja Abu-1 Fazl bin al Hasan al Baihaki. Accord... more »ing to his own account he was sixteen years of age in 402 Hijra (1011 A.D.) and he writes of a period as late as 451 H. (a.d. 1059), being then as he says an old man, or, as would appear, approaching 70 years of age. Khaki Shirazi states that he died in 470 (1077 A.D.) The title of the work is sometimes read " Tdrikh-i Al-i Subuktigin,"3 and it is also known as the " Tdrikh-i Saihaki.n Its voluminous extent has also obtained for it the name of the " Mujalladdt-i Baihaki; Volumes of Baihaki." The work would also seem to have been known under the name of the " Tdrikh-i Ndsiri," for a passage in the Tdrikh-i Wassdf attributes a history of this name to Abu-1 Fazl Baihaki. It therefore seems to be a title of this work, or at least of some of its earlier volumes devoted to the history of Nasiru-d din Subuktigin, in the same way as the later volumes containing the reign of Mas'ud are entitled Tdrikh-i Mas'udi? The portion relating to Mah- mud's historj' was called Tdjii-l Futiih as is evident from Unsurfs Kasaid. Haji Khalfa, in his Lexicon, describes this work as a comprehensive history of the Ghaznivides in several volumes. Mirkhond quotes it among Persian histories, and in his preface to the Rauzatu-s sofa, he says that it consists of thirty volumes.Firishta evidently refers to this author, when he speaks of the Mujalladat of Abu-1 Fazl, at the beginning of Mahmud's reign, but it may be doubted if he ever saw the work. He does not notice it in his list of works, and he certainly did not nse it for Mas'iid's reign, as he omits many important events recorded-in it. The Mujalladat are also referred to for the same reign by ...« less