alignant.

32. Azrail is the angel of death, whose duty it is to separate the
souls from the bodies of men. Israfil is entrusted with the task of
blowing the last trump.

33. The resurrection, and the signs foretelling it, are described in
the _Mishkat-ul-Masabih_, book xxiii, chapters 3 to 11. (Matthews,
vol. ii, pp. 556-620.)

34. The Hindoo 'ages' are (1) Krita, or Satya, (2) Treta, (3)
Dwapara, (4) Kali, the present evil age. The long periods assigned to
these are merely the result of the calculations of astronomers, who
preferred integral to fractional numbers.

35. This kind of education does not now pay, and is, consequently,
going out of fashion. The Muhammadans are slowly, and rather
unwillingly, yielding to the pressure of necessity and beginning to
accept English education.

36. Imam Muhammad Ghazzali, who is also entitled Hujjat-ul-Islam, is
the surname of Abu Hamid Muhammad Zain-ud-din Tusi, one of the
greatest and most celebrated Musalman doctors, who was born A.D.
1058, and died A.D. 1111. (Beale, s.v. 'Ghazzali'.) The length of
these Muhammadan names is terrible. They are much mangled in the
original edition. See _ante_, chapter 53, note 10, and Blochmann
(Ain) pp. 103, 182.

37. Khwaja Nasir-ud-din Tusi, the famous philosopher and astronomer,
the most universal scholar that Persia ever produced. Born A.D. 1201,
died A.D. 1274. (Beale.) See _ante_, loc. cit.

38. Especially the _Bustan_ and _Gulistan_. Beale gives a list of
Sadi's works. See _ante_, chapter 12, note 6.

39. This is a very cynical and inadequate explanation of the
prevalence of Conservative opinions among Englishmen in the East.

40. Ante, chapter 30, [6].

41. In the original edition the portrait of Akbar II is twice given,
namely, in the frontispiece of Volume I as a full-page plate, and
again as a miniature, dated 1836, in the frontispiece of Volume II.

42. The most secluded native prince of the present day could not be
guilty of this absurdity.

43. Babur was sixth in descent from Timur, not seventh. Babur's
grandfather, Abu Sayyid, was great-grandson of Timur. Babur, not
Babar, is the correct spelling.

44. This may be an exaggeration. The undoubted facts are sufficiently
horrible.

45. Timur was a man of surpassing ability, and knew much 'else'. See
Malcolm, _History of Persia_, ed. 1859, chapter 11.

46. Timur's 'historian and great eulogist' was Sharaf-ud-din (died
1446), whose _Zafarnama_, or 'Book of Victor