Note 392 — Chapter XXIV · Tīmūr, the Great Amīr

The Calcutta text of the Zafar-Nāmé of Sheref ud-Dīn `Alī Yazdī, the famous biographer of Tīmūr, reads throughout Karān. S. Lane-Poole, op. cit., gives the date of his accession as 744 (A.D. 1343),—upon what authority it is not clear. Price (following the Khulāsat ul-Akhbār) is in agreement with the Zafar-Nāmé. We are, moreover, expressly told that he ruled fourteen years, and died in 747.