Vol. VI, No. 2.] Murah-Nama. 79 



[N.8.] 



peacock's feather. The bird should be handsome, and 

 shapely, and active, and quick as a cobra in movement ; and in 

 fighting it should be hama-gir, } and retiring after a blow so 

 as to avoid its adversary's counter 2 ; and should it receive 

 a blow, it should so retaliate as to lay its adversary at its feet 

 in the throes of death, fluttering as though its throat had 

 been cut. 



To make the young cockerel strong and fit for battle. — 

 When the cockerel is four months old the cocker should 

 separate it from the mother s and make it familiar with him, 

 and give it daily two almonds mixed with did (course wheaten 

 flour) and feed it on pild,o or solan,* etc., i.e., whatever the 

 cocker eats himself, and give it halwa, of yolks of eggs, accord- 

 ing to the following receipt : 



Receipt. —The yolk of one egg, clarified butter 9 mashas, 

 white sugar one told, ground pepper-corns 2 mashas, seed of red 

 chillies one mdsha, alrnonds three, pistachio nuts two, black 

 raisins 5 two, one gold leaf, fine wheaten flour 25 darns,* 

 Lahore salt 7 three mashas. Make into a halwa. 



In the morning give half a belly-full of the halwa, and on 



the top of it half a belly-full of balls of course wheaten flour. 

 After exercising 8 the cock, put on the muzzle, spout water over 

 it's face, shampoo 8 with the hand, and confine in a qalqul or 

 square coop, releasing it at four in the afternoon. After a tim< 

 look and see if it is thirsty, and if it is, take it out of the coop 

 and give it water. At four o'clock release it. If it is thirsty 

 it will drink. If it is not thirsty and wont drink, then again 

 spout it and shampoo it, and exercise s it for an hour. After that 

 bring it into the house, and confining a hen in a small basket- 

 cage , 10 let loose the cockerel that it may see the hen and run 

 round and round her and by the exercise increase his strength, 

 but do not let him tread the hen. After running, lift up the 



any part of its antagonist's body .- opposed to ek-ghara, adj., one that 

 always attacks a particular shot. 



a Pichhal-pa,i karria. 



3 Game chicks will remain with the mother for a year if not inter- 

 fered with, but common fowls not more than 4 oi 5 months. 



* Salan, anything eaten with bread or with rice, and specially 

 vegetables cooked with meat, such as curry, etc. Game fowls are led 

 from the hand and are not allowed to pick up food from the ground lest 

 the beak should become worn. Some game-fowl given to the translator 

 were so wedded to the hand that they starved rather than pick up food 



from the ground. . . 



* Mawez-i munaqqa, black raisins, bloom raisins. 



« Dam ; according to the MaMzan, p. 00. it is a vi ight of five tank 

 or 20 mashas. 



7 Rock salt from Lahore. 



8 Tahlana. . . 



* By grasping and pressing all the limbs and joints. 



10 Khancha or khancht* 



