xcii Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [April 
Dharamtala Street, eet ee proposed by Mr. D. Hooper, secon- 
ev. A. Will r Young; Major Fairlie Russell Ozzard, 
I.M.S., Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Bengal, United. Service 
Club, proposed by Lieut.-Col. vie P. Maynard, I.M.S., seconded 
by Maj or L. Rogers, Migs. | fea © Sa OS Simpson, D.Se., 
Imperial Meteorologist, Mebestotapiaal soe Simla, proposed 
by Prof. J. A. Cunningham, seconded by P C. W. Peake; 
a Walter Leather, Ph.D., Trperial ee iat Chemist, Pusa, 
Bengal, proposed by Prof. J. A. Cunningham, seconded by P rof. 
C. W. Peake. 
Maulavi Abdul Wali rade the following remarks on Mr. 
Gupte’s note ear the Khil’at published in the Proceed- 
ings for July, 1 
Mr, B.A. ee s note on the silk-brocade coat presented 
by the Maharaja of Bikaner to the proposed Victoria Hall, 
which Mr. Gupte exhibited, is published in the Proceed- 
ings of the Society for July, 1908 (page cii). The translation 
of the Persian legend is not only inaccurate, but the inference 
drawn from it is far-fetched. 
The exhibitor explained that there were two panels—one 
containing the bust of a king, and the other that of a queen. 
elow the bust of the former was inscribed the following Persian 
legend : 
sad ule lye at lh ae 
BOM yh Si ym. IS OY 
The following translation or rather paraphrase was sub- 
mitted by the exhibitor: ‘‘ These are beautiful pictures, which 
please my heart. She has become a parda or zenana lady of 
His Majesty of Persia. 
I daresay the workman (who most probably was a Persian, 
as appears from the description of the Khil’at published) must 
have meant something more rational in the above bait than 
the paraphrast could tell the audience. I give below a literal 
translation, but the full significance of the couplet must be 
sought, either from the Bikaner Darbar, or from those who 
have critically examined the coat. This is ‘the translation of the 
bait in English :— 
“You might say that this image had become from top- 
to-toe the soul 
‘**The holder of screen to the Chosroes of Iran.’ 
In other words: The silk-coat was so exquisitely ecg 
and life-like, that if you had seen it, you might think it to 
soul, and was made to do die: duty of a holder of 
screen to the king of Iran. I believe that this Khil’at was 
designed by an Irani for an Iranian monarch. 
