2o6 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.di.lxiii.
For "Gau" cp. Sale {Prel. Disc. p. 4) and Mas'udi (ed. B. de M. Vol. Ill, Chap. XLvii, pp. 276, 288).
Lxiv El Nebt are the Nabateans. El Mas'udi (p. 77) speaks of Nimrod as son of Mash and builder of the tower of Babel and king of the Nebt. The term Nebt seems to designate vaguely the Chaldean element of IVIesopotamia. See Palgrave, C and E. Arabia, 11, 158 et seq.
Lxv "Son of Laudh" is not in Ibn el Athir. In Abu el Fida Faris appears as son of Laudh.
Lxvi Ibn el Athir's remark that Kaynan was a sorcerer is omitted by D I : many authors similarly omit his name altogether from the genealogies from superstition: see Abu el Fida (p. 20) and Ibn el Athir (Vol. i, p. 35) on this point.
Shalikh = Salah: 'Abir = Eber: Faligh = Peleg: see Genesis, chap. x. After "Faligh" D i has omitted Ibn el Athir's note to the effect that "in his days was the earth divided."
Kahtan is the ancestor of all the Yemenite Arabs, or 'Arab el 'Ariba, whereas Faligh, as being forefather of Abraham, is ancestor of the whole Isma'ilitic stock.
The insertion here of Yunan is a mistake. Ibn el Athir mentions him
later as son of Yafith. He is the legendary ancestor of the Greeks, who were called Yunaniyytin before they were subjected by the Romans. The
word is the same etymologically as " Ionian."
'' And Kahtan begot. . ." The text of Ibn el Athir runs ^Uaai^ jJ^ O-o-J' *i)>^ O^*:!^ ^j^i ("and Kahtan begot Ya'arub and Yukzan and they two settled in el Yemen"), but the copyist has transferred from the end of the chapter the names of the descendants of Ya'arub to here, with the result that after the two lines dealing with them he
blandly continues ^j-o-J' "^P ^J\JaAJ^ ("and Yukzan settled (dual) in el Yemen").
For the descendants of Yashgub and Saba cp. Wiistenfeld, 5. Lxvii Among the Beni Lakhm were the kings of Hira, who were known
as the "Mondars" ("Monadira"): cp. Sale, Prel. Disc. p. 9.
Lxviii "And were ..." Ibn el Athir gives ^\^ {i.e. the dual is dropped) : D I gives ^^ {i.e. the descendants of Ya'arub and Yukzan).
^jtUl sIXoIj aJIc ^.^JL, ^^ Jjl — the formula used in addressing the
ancient Arab kings was ^JJ^JL)I w**jI (see Wright's Arabic Grammar, Part III, p. 3, and cp. el Mas'udi, ed. Sprenger, Chap, ill, p. 78, and ed. B. de M. Vol. Ill, Chap, xliv, p. 201).
LXix Ar'u is the biblical " Reu," Sarugh " Serug," Nahur " Nahor," and Tarikh "Terah." Cp. B i, xxvi.
Lxx Nimrudh, or "Nimrod" {q.v. supra, note LXiv), appears in el Mas'udi (p. 77) as son of Mash son of Aram; in el Tabari (p. 127) as son of Kana'an; and in Abu el Fida (p. 20) as son of Kush: the last version is mentioned by Ibn el Athir but omitted by the copyist.
Sind and Hind are intended to represent India. "India" is originally "the land of the Hind," meaning the people of the south and east of the peninsula : generally the people of the north-eastern part were called the