PERSIAN, 199 



Jerfalcon {Shungar), Saker [Bdldbdn, when captured in nets, and 

 Charkh, when taken from the nest), Merlin {Turumtdi), Gos- 

 hawk Tdigi'm and Tarldn, male and female, and Sparrow-hawk 

 {Bdshd and Girgi), besides the Bargut^ or trained eagle. As 

 to the hawks used by Persian falconers see the remarks of 

 Major Oliver St. John in the account of the Persian Boundary 

 Commission, 1870-72, edited by Sir Frederic Goldsmid, 2 vols. 

 8vo, London, 1876, vol. ii. pp. 102-111. 



An earlier translation of the Ain i Akbari, by F. Gladwin, 

 was printed in 4to, Calcutta 1783, and London 1800, but that 

 by Blochmann, here quoted, is considered preferable. 



344. Baz Namah, or Book of the Hawk. 



Amongst the Persian MSS. in the British Museum, Egerton, 

 1012 fT. 124 {cf. Rieu, Cat. ii. 485), is a Baz Namah, or Book of 

 the Hawk, seventeenth century, in metre. " Bahadur " is the 

 poetical surname assumed by the author, and occurs in a 

 versified preamble, fol. 1-5, containing eulogies on 'Abd ul- 

 Kadir Jilanf, and on the reigning Sovereign Aurangzib. The 

 author states in a succeeding prose preface that he had under- 

 taken the work at the urgent request of Ja'fer Beg, whom he 

 calls his master in the craft. He mentions having written the 

 work in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of 'Alemgir, correspond- 

 ing to A.H. 1091, or A.D. 1680. 



The treatise is divided into forty-three chapters (Mds), a list 

 of which is given at the end of the preface, fol. B. The first 

 thirty-nine treat very fully of the training of hawks and other 

 hunting birds, and of their employment in the chase. Then 

 follow : Bad xl.. Diseases of Hunting-birds, in sixty-eight 

 sections (fas/), fol. 84 b ; Bdd xli., their treatment, fol. 93 b ; 

 and Bad xlii., miscellaneous instructions, in four sections. 



345. Baz Namah, or Book of the Hawk. 



In the same collection, Egerton 10 13, pp. 108 (cf. Rieu, Cat. 

 ii. p. 485), is a Baz Namah, or Book of the Hawk, dated a.h. 

 1 163, i.e., A.D. 1749, by Muhib 'AU, surnamed Khdn Khas 

 Mahalli B. Nizam ud Din 'AH Marghilani. 



The author, a son of Nizam ud Din 'Ali Khalifeh, Prime 

 Minister of Baber, was raised to the dignity of Khan in the first 

 year of Akbar's reign, and died Governor of Delhi^ a.h. 989, 



