Excerpt from History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India, Till the Year A. D. 1612, Vol. 1 of 4
Of Ferishta's far-famed chronicle of the Muhammadan Dynasties, as may have been expected, more than one trans lation has been published. So early as 1768-72 there appeared in three volumes, The Hz'sfory of Hz'ndosmn trans lated by Alexander Dow. This was followed in 1794 by the History of Me dela/ian, in two volumes, translated by Jonathan Scott. Both these, it must however he confessed, are fragmentary renderings. Scott's which contains the most important part of Ferishta, is regarded by scholars as the more trustworthy, while Dow's on the other hand, althoughless reliable perhaps, is the more elegant and free translation. So much so that (we learn from the preface to a subsequent translation by Briggs) the great historian Edward Gibbon declared it impossible to distinguish between the translator and the original author. It so plainly betrayed the hand of a modern European writer that both Dr. Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke doubted its being the work of a Muhammadan living in the 16th century.
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