[4] Tahmasp I's letter of greeting, which Mohammad Khan Tokhmaq presented to Murad III, is in the archives of the Topkapı Palace.

[4][a] During the short reign of Shah Ismail II (r. 1576–1577), the Shah ordered Mohammad Khan Tokhmaq, Grand Vizier Mirza Shokrollah Isfahani, and Mirza Ali Qajar to function as members of the orf court within the court of justice, in order to assist the incumbent divanbegi (chancellor, chief justice) Soltan Ebrahim Mirza, in giving judgement on individual cases involving finance as well as matters affecting the interests of the state in general.

[5][b] The mandates and judgements proposed by Mohammad Khan Tokhmaq and the others were eventually endorsed by the "supreme divan", with Ismail II's approval, and for a few months, they were put to practise.

[8] The modern historian Rudi Matthee states that his spies miscalculated the size of the Ottoman army, "only counting the ones that were visible to them".

[9][10] Munshi put the blame on the Qizilbash, stating that they ruined "their potential strength through disunity and internal bickering and of foolhardily rushing into war, taking on an army of 100,000 with a mere 15,000 troops rather than waiting until all reinforcements had arrived".

[2] A gholam (slave-soldier) of Mohammad Khan Tokhmaq, Behbud Agha, was a Georgian who hailed from a Kartlian noble family (tavadi).