168 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
I will therefore take at random some passages from the Akbar- 
nama in which the phrase under discussion occurs. The Persian 
scholar will be able to judge for himself. Those unacquainted 
with that eran will have the satisfaction of pie the 
real sense, if not the literal meaning, in the words 
Mr. Beveridge, a a scholar who is ict aalahig the 
highest living authority on the Akbari period. 
I will first cite the following : 
aT G odb3 CLF wi %, > gr! e* aS Om ipake p= 9 
Cd7% wrt eld iad jl epg as dey 8 1) Ady wr! Jet 9 lost 
pills y sl as od Colod & uybly USS y allhy abdjo jL soho) og) she 
# 07 wygy? JUS! Suro jf og/! pd pays 3! 
Op. cit. TI. 60, ll. 21-24. 
And [scil. the Emperor] issued an order that no one of 
his retinue should be in attendance on him. He [scil. Akbar] 
sent away his grooms and such-like persons, that the solitude 
of his retirement might not be contaminated by the crowd of 
this class of men, and went out unattended and alone from the 
Camp of fortune.” Beveridge, ae Trans 
The context shows that the order was i issued during the 
return-journey from Mankot to ae and the (Jlas}_;Se must 
have been somewhere between those two places (ibid. 91-94. 
passim). The synonymous expression cy »5_,8b cssoy! is used 
for it very soon afterwards (ib. 94; Text, 62,1. 1). 
Again we read: 
Joi 28 tty it JL y cdyoy a9d y obidbe ily) 92 Boy059 wolew Jo)’ 
# Dioogas ie aia Brp%9 JUS! wy 
Bibl. Ind. Text, tal; 329, ll. 15-16. 
‘In fine, after enjoying the hunting, H. M. sent off his 
w 
Camp [gle ¢¢9¢)! ] which had been pitched near Alwar, while he 
himself went by way of Narnol, and there joined the Camp. 
[ SLS! See j.” Beveridge, II. 484. 
Once more, we have the phrase in the following sentence : 
