82 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [February, 1910. 



batdsha 1 Gmdshas, sugar-candy 4 oz., cardamums one told, 

 the yolks of nine eggs. Fry the yolks in butter and then add 

 them to the halwd ; put the whole into a coarse cloth and rub 

 through, and then add wheat-en flour sufficient to soak up all 

 liquid. Give of this to the cock as described above from six 



mdshas up to two tolas. 



When 



fight it one pant 



own 



dalbd. Afterwards spout and suck the cock's beak and face well, 

 to remove blood-spots, and damp a rag in water and clean the 



inside of the throat with it. 



If the jaws be fleshy 8 or if the wattles are large and 

 it is desired to remove them, then extract the oil of bhildwan* 

 and rub it on the cock's face, and if it please God this 

 defect will be removed and will not return. If the comb 

 is too large and it is desired to cut it off, then, after fighting, 

 cut the comb immediately to the size desired, applying to the 

 wound the white web 5 of a spider, or else staunch with small 

 feathers plucked from under the cock's wings : until a recovery 

 takes place do not spout the cock. Agar murah ho sdda hi 

 pharkdnd ho 6 then take a quarter of a piece ^ of turmeric and 

 add half a nux vomica nut and a little edible lime 8 and heat 

 over the fire, and plaster the mixture thickly on the cock's 

 face ; but first of all take 9 mdsha of gur 9 with 3 mdsha of 



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round turmeric and make into a pill and give it to the 



cock ; and, if it is the cold season, keep the cock in the sun, 

 if the hot in the shade. The cock must not be fed during the 

 day but in the evening after fomentation, when it should be fed 

 on halwd or on bread dipped in fresh milk. In the evening the 

 cock should be fomented with a pad dipped in a liquid decoction. 



1 A sweetmeat or sugar-cake (of a spongy texture and hollow 

 within) 



* Dalba a cocking term for a common or a half-bred cock kept to 

 be bullied by a game cockerel. The dalba is muzzled and hobbled 

 before being pitted against its aristocratic antagonist. 



One writer states that a cockerel should not be fought till he is 

 one year old and that he should then be pitted against one of his own age 

 for five minutes the first day, ten the second, and fifteen the third, and 

 then for as long as desirable ; and that at the expiration of the fixed 

 time the birds should be separated and their beaks sucked and blown 

 upon. (If a child falls and hurts itself, Indians generally blow upon the 

 seat of injury with the idea of cooling the spot and lessening the pain.) 



3 Bad-goshta adj., with too much flesh on the jaws. The wattles 

 only can be cut off, not the flesh from the jaws. 



* Bhilawan EL, the marking-nut plant, Semecarpus anacardium. 



& t.e., the " white web" of small spiders opposed to the "yellow 

 web ' * of large spiders. 



6 Author's meaning unintelligible. He probably means, " If it is 

 wished to fight the cock at once before the wound hashealed." 



7 Turmeric is sold in pieces about two inches long. 



8 Chuna-e khurdarii. 



* Qand-i siyah is probably gur y a raw, unrefined sugar. 



