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hands ; add milk and gur, and replace on the fire to cook. 

 When well cooked, set aside to congeal by cooling, and feed your 

 horse on this in place of grain. If a small quantity only be given, 

 it can be mixed with the drinking water. No amount is fixed ; 

 give the horse as much as it will eat. 



CONCLUSION 



In very brief verses I have said my say, for brevity spares both 

 reader and writer ; therefore I have presented to you a great sea 

 inside a pint pot. The receipts I have given have been tested 

 and tried. I penned these verses ^ in twenty days, in 1210 A.H.,- 

 my years then numbering forty — and some days. When this 

 " Book of the Horse " {Fars-Ndma) reached its end, I named it 

 " The Book of Horsemanship of Bangm." ^ It contains just a 

 thousand couplets. 



FINIS 



1 The treatise was originally in prose. 



2 i.e., A.D. 1795. 



^ Fardsat-Ndma-e Rangln. Firdsat is " discernment, &c.," so perhaps 

 the author intends a play on the words. The ordinary form of the 

 Arabic word used for horsemanship is furusiyah or furilsah and not 

 fardsahf but Rangin would not hesitate to use a form that is unchaste. 



