ON THE COLOURS AND MARKS IN HORSES 9 



lucky. The Mugtals of Persia, however, object to it, calling it 

 " spotted " {Midl-dd r) ; they consider it worthless. 



If a horse has either the near- or the off -hind white, it is 

 defective and is called arjal} Do not buy it, for it is grievously 

 faulty. If the seller says to you, " Oh, but there's white on the 

 forehead, too,'' do not give ear to his specious words, for the 

 Prophet has said that an arjal^ is bad; what else, then, is there to 

 be said ? 



If a horse is either mouse-coloured [sor), or else a grey with 

 the uuderlying skin in patches of white and black ~ {sanjdb), the 

 people of Hindustan^ and the Panjab do not consider it bad, but 

 the Persians do. The latter say these colours are objectionable 

 because Yazid* often rode such horses. 



If asked the best colour for a horse, reply ''bay" (kumayt). A 

 khaki dun {khingY comes next, and then a dun with black mane 

 and tail and black knees (samand). Next comes a cream horse 

 spotted or splashed with other colours [abrash)^ and a dun- 

 coloured horse with black list and ears [hdnmi)!^ Next piebald or 

 skewbald {ahlaq), and hoz or light grey,^ but that hoz which is black- 

 eyed {qara-qffz, T.). Next black [mushhl) and a bright-red dun 

 with a ''list" {qulld).^ After these two come a splashed red-roan 

 {garrd), and a grey with a dark mane and tail (sabza). Next in 

 order comes chesnut [surang), and next a cream-dun with cream 

 mane and tail (shirgha). After this comes a horse with four white 

 stockings and a blaze (pach-kaliydn), and next a horse flecked with 

 white hairs {chdl)y^ 



1 Vide page 4 and note 8, page 4. 



- Sometimes the patches are distinct only when the horse is wet. 



3 Hindustan, i.e., the upper Ganjetic plain, Oadh, the former 

 N.W.P. and Behar. 



* Yazid, the King who despatched Shimr to kill Husayn on the 

 " Plain of Anguish." 



5 The colour of Multani clay. The term khing is vague. 



^ Thus Tiiomayt abrash, cream-coloured with bay spots or splashes. 



"^ Also qdnfm ; obsolete terms. 



^ Boz, T., grey ; probably with light mane and tail. 



9 Properly quia, T. Apparently from quldn, T., "a wild ass." I 

 believe a quid horse should properly have black zebra stripes on the 

 fore-legs. 



^^^ Or chal, T., term obsolete in India. 



