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0125 Southern Tibet : vol.1
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SEIFI AND HIS HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF INDIA, ETC.

75

In Shah Jahangir's time the expression Tibet seems chiefly to have included

Baltistan and Ladak. Himalaya was simply called »the mountains of Jammu and

Kangra» ;' Kangra was the name of the fort of Nagrakot, and in Europe the Hima-

laya was called »the mountains of Nagrakot».

The last extract on Tibet, from a Mohammedan text worth mentioning, I find

in SCHEFER's translation of Bokhari's History of Central Asia, 1740-1818. Its

author is SEIFI, and the title of his work History of the Kings of India, Sind, Khita,

Khotan etc. He places Tibet between Kashmir, Hindustan, the countries of the

Kalmaks and the province of Kashgar, though the latter countries are separated

from Tibet by a desert of several days' journey; by this he probably means the

road over the Kara-korum pass, of which another Mohammedan, MIR ISSET ULLAH,

gave a very good description in 1812. Tibet is described, by Seifi, as a vast and

flourishing country, the several princes of which are in continual war against each

other. The country is full of steep mountains covered with forests, and it is ac-

cessible only through narrow gorges. There is any amount of gold. The Tibetans

are very small and dressed in black from head to foot. 2

Herewith we have brought the knowledge of the great Arabian geographers

and other Mohammedans regarding Tibet down to a time in which the Europeans

had already begun to become masters of Hindustan. The extracts given above, all

from the time of Suleiman the Merchant have shown us how very little the Moham-

medan writers knew even of northern India and the Himalaya during centuries

previous to the foundation of the Empire of the Great Mogul. As to Tibet, its name

was known, but concerning its situation and its geography this country remained

practically a terra incognita.

I ELLIOT'S History. Vol. VI, p. 382.

2 Histoire de l'Asie Centrale (1740-18 18). Par Mir ABDOUL KERIM BOUKHARY, publ. par

CHARLES SCHEFER, Paris 1876, p. 292 et seq.