Vol. VI, No. 2.] Murgh-Nama. 77 



[N.S.] 



green mdzu ] one tola, of betel-leaf juice 2 a sufficiency, of 

 double-distilled wine ; a sufficient quantity. Grind the' in- 

 gredients and then heat them in the wine and betel-leaf 

 juice, and dress or anoint the cock's face. 



Ingredients for washing a cock's face.—Amba haldi 2 

 mashas, fried_alum of Yemen 3 one mdsha, aloes 2 mashas, 

 dry mako 2 mashas, opium one masha, leaves of taj 4 2 mashas] 

 juice of green mako 6 a sufficient quantity. Cook alj the 

 ingredients in hot water, wash the cock's face with the liquid, 

 and dry with a handkerchief. 



Receipt for a food to be given to the cock before battle. — 

 Take of syrup of sweet pomegranates one told, of preserved 

 amid 6 one, of apples one, of preserved quinces one, of gold 

 leaf 6 mashas, of silver leaf 6 mdshas 9 of barberries 2 mas- 

 has, of cucumber seeds 2 mashas, of kasnV seeds 3 mashas, 

 of seed of the bel fruit 2 mashas. Grind ; add the pomegranate 

 syrup; roll into pills of four mashas each, and cover with gold 

 and silver leaf, and give four mashas to the cock ; after one 

 ghari 3 go to the cock-pit * and fight your cock. If you find 

 a lack of fire in the cock, give it half a fresh jalebi, 10 pepper- 

 corns, and the egg of a red fowl, mixed with the juice of 

 garlic and the juice of green ginger. Next, tying up the 

 spurs u with cloth, and then spouting the bird, make it fight. 

 It then rests with the cocker n to make or mar the bird. 



Further binding on the horn covering 13 of the beak, if it 

 becomes loosened, fitting (i.e., imping) a cock with a spur 14 , 

 imping a feather, 15 cutting round the eyelids, 16 

 eyelids, 17 are also the business of a cocker. 



sewing 



1 Vide note 15, p. 76. 



2 Areca Catechu. 



s Shabb-i-Y amanl : the best kind of alum. See Makhzan. Vol. II. 

 p. 832. 



* Vide note 12, p. 76. 



* Vide note 7, p. 76. 



6 The fresh fruit of the Emblic Myrobalan, Phyllanthus Emblica 



preserved as a confection. 



7 Kasnl, Endive ehichory, Cichorium Intybus. 



* The space of twenty-four minutes; a small (indefinite) period of time 



* Pall. 



10 Jalebi, a sweetmeat made of inspissated milk. Hour and sugar. 



11 Kanta bandhna is blunting the spur with a file and then binding 

 it up to make it ineffective. 



12 Khilari, sportsman. 



*3 Chonch, the upper mandible and jabra, the lower. The chilka 01 

 horn covering of the beak sometimes gets loosened by fighting. 



I* Kanta charhana. If a spur is broken another natural spur is 

 taken from another cock and fitted on. 



15 Par ganthna " to imp a cock's or a hawk's feather." 



I* Chakkar chashm ke tarashna, cutting off, during the figlu he 

 swollen flesh that closes the eyes and prevents the cock seeing. The ^ye 

 will thenceforward always remain open since the eyelid If removed. This 

 is a delicate and very rarelv performed operation. 



] 7 Chaupalka tankna : if during a fight the lids swell from won Is, 



