The Prophets.—Ancient Persian Kings.—Kings of Bábil and
Assyria.—Israelites.—Yúnán.—Himyarites.—Yemen.—Ghas-
SIZE.—Small folio, containing 884 pages of 17 lines each; but the codex is here and there defective, and the history of the Safí, Súfí, or Safaví kings of Persia, mentioned in the copious table of contents, occupying nearly six pages of the preface, is not bound up with this volume. A note in the beginning of the volume states that it contains 522 folios, which was probably the correct number before the abstractions.
Of the portions relating to India, the history of the Ghazni-
In these latter portions he has been very particular with regard to his dates, his official duties having probably taught him the value of correctness in such matters; for in the two short Extracts which follow, we find him at one time a paymaster, and at another a revenue accountant.
This work is rare. There is a copy of some antiquity in the Motí Mahall Library at Lucknow. The Tonk Nawáb has one, and so has Muhammad Hasan of Cawnpore, and Fakír Núru-d dín of Lahore. Other copies have been heard of. Muhammad Hasan's copy contains the whole of the Safaví dynasty.