10. Khojah Nasir-ud-din of Tus in Persia was a great astronomer,
philosopher, and mathematician in the thirteenth century. The
author's Imam-ud-din Ghazzali is intended for Abu Hamid Imam al
Ghazzali, one of the most famous of Musulman doctors. He was born at
Tus, the modern Mashhad (Meshed) in Khurasan, and died in A.D. 1111.
His works are numerous. One is entitled _The Ruin of Philosophies_,
and another, the most celebrated, is _The Resuscitation of Religious
Sciences_ (F. J. Arbuthnot, _A Manual of Arabian History and
Literature_, London, 1890). These authors are again referred to in a
subsequent chapter. I am not able to judge the propriety of Sleeman's
enthusiastic praise.
11. The gentleman referred to was Mr. John Wilton, who was appointed
to the service in 1775.
12. The cantonments at Dinapore (properly Danapur) are ten miles
distant from the great city of Patna.
13. The rupee was worth more than two shillings in 1810. The
remuneration of high officials by commission has been long abolished.
14. There used to be two opium agents, one at Patna, and the other at
Ghazipur, who administered the Opium Department under the control of
the Board of Revenue in Calcutta.
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