460 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July 1911. 
under him, or of returning to Bahadur. The Mirat Sikandari, 
see Faz] Ullah’s translation, p. 196, gives a different account 
of the circumstances under which the enigma was composed, 
but both it and Aba Turab’s work agree that the couplet 
contains an allusion to Humayin’s name, and perhaps to its 
numerical value according to abjad. But neither of these works, 
This view is corroborated by another specimen of Ikhtiyar- 
Khan’s enigmas which is given at p. 195 of Fazl Ullah’s 
translation. (Page 252 of the Bombay ed. of the Persian text of 
the ‘‘ Mirat $.”) There the enigma seems to consist of a bad pun 
on the name Jamal. Gargin de Tassy in his work on ‘‘ Oriental 
Rhetoric and Prosody,’’ 2nd ed., Paris 1873, remarks on the 
obscurity of the department of oriental prosody which relates 
to Mu’amma, riddles. 
Page 12, 1. 21; see p. 74, three ll. from foot—pe~ Base. 
This is the Vasha of Bates’ Hindi dictionary, p. 661, col. 2, and 
the Vasa of Sanskrit dictionaries, It means a woman, and 
etymologically has the same meaning as the Arabic &use< a’ifa, 
i.e. weak, or subdued. 
Page 13, 6 ll. from foot—aise Chaghta. Dr. Ross remarks 
that this word has the appearance of incorrectness. But it has 
been correctly copied. See infra. 
Page 14, 10 ll. from foot—sahsalah chapar niz yaft. These 
words occur also in the B.M. MS. and are unintelligible. Dr. Ross 
takes chapar to be the Hindi word chaprt meaning ‘‘ bran. 
Mr. Irvine, R.A.S.J. for April 1910, p. 511, suggests that it stands 
for chhappar ‘‘a thatch,’’ and would translate ’’ grass three 
years old from thatches.’’ Neither explanation seems quite 
satisfactory. Possibly gah-i-sahsalah, (there is an izafat after 
gah) should be gah-i-sipahsalar ‘‘the straw for the Commander- 
in-Chief,’’ or, what I think is more likely, the proper reading 
may be giah-e-sah salah u chhappar chiz yaft, that is, ‘‘straw 
three years old, and that from thatches were precious.’’ But 
it is all very doubtful. See infra. 
_ Page 16, 5 ll. from foot, Farghali is perhaps right enough. 
It is the Arabic form of Parghali. He was Humayun’s Pir and 
is frequently mentioned in the Akbarnama and the Tarikh 
Rashidi. He was drowned at Chausé. See Akbarnama, text, 
1. 133, where there is also the reading Pir ‘Ali, 
Page 17,1.8. A line has been accidentally omitted here. 
After a&)iq Chitorke there should be inserted GS cms 1 Si 
(ete. ghar) ts! ad5) wLle ot gsiliy! stp? Baye) Gollariet ete.,‘‘ Chitor, 
