[Footnote 43: His name was Kheder Khan. Four bags were
placed round his sopha, and as he listened to the song, he
cast handfuls of gold and silver to the poets, (D'Herbelot,
p. 107.) All this may be true; but I do not understand how
he could reign in Transoxiana in the time of Malek Shah, and
much less how Kheder could surpass him in power and pomp. I
suspect that the beginning, not the end, of the xith century
is the true aera of his reign.]