19. The Spelling of Babar’s Name. 
By Mavuwavi ‘Appvu’L WALI. 
What is the correct spelling or rather pronunciation of | 
- Emperor Babar’s name has not, I am afraid, been finally 
decided. Mr. Francis Stuart Poole in a note to the Introduction 
to his ‘Coins of the Shahs of Persia” (1887), p. XXv, nhs 
shown 
poem, previously published by Ilminski from Prof. Berezine’s 
MS., for which Dr. Ross is indebted to Mr. Beveridge; and pub- 
Habibu’s-Siyar, page 291, Vol. III of the Bombay Lithograph, 
including the distich noted by Mr. Beveridge. But what Mr. 
Beveridge read as tahur (in the last distich of the poem), Dr. 
tg Fi 
Ross reads the same as partav-i-dur (jo x), to rhyme it 
with Babur. I looked into the text of the Bombay Litho- 
staphic edition of the History and found that the word was 
heither tahur, as Mr. Beveridge read it, nor partav-i-dur, as Dr. 
owe : 
Ross made it out; but a third word, viz. tahauur (prt? ), which, 
however, correctly rhymes with Babur. The last distich as Dr. 
°ss has published it reads :— 
# . 
si sls ele Ke y ie ~ A oly P= 
ee 
Asie, cise ee 
So, however defective might be the premise, based on i 
‘Seay reading of the word hat would rhyme with Babur, it 18 
oo. Los sil) 39? 
i in the sixth distich. For wt Jb! > 7 fbi os 
ould be read whiny Joe n> > wf yo oy 
