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y$. Vullers' verse from the Shahnamah is given in Rashidi as 

 ollows : — 



<S*sr! Oof jAJt ^5** «>•«># c/Uj *y^} ^ ,*Lk JJ 



U»*i?} ourinish. Vullers quotes from F. the following verse of Nizami — 



and says : — "in quo tamen falso et contra metrum legitur i^^>y. 



[burinish], quod e conjectura in (J^Hy, [burrinish] mutavi." But by this 



conjecture, Vullers makes the second foot ^yA* mafulun , 



instead of i^y-* fa'ulun k* ! My MSS. read correctly 



jLwJ. In the verse of Amir Khusrau read cl=y jd instead of Vullers' 

 JLa^jya, and translate :— " How may a weak man get rid of his frame of 

 clay; an elephant even is helpless when he sticks in the clay." The 

 fourth meaning in Vullers is quite useless, as ^J^b is an adjective, 

 and the same as ikej&jS of the fifth meaning. 



8jUL) 3) perturbatio. For Vullers' verse from the Shahnamah 

 read : — 



Again, Vullers' words 2) in hoc versu ejusdem poetae are wrong, as 

 the verse quoted belongs to jl&iJlji 1 >,j^» ) but not to ^jj ^jd*j*\, F. 

 having changed the order of the meanings given in the F J. The fifth 

 meaning is very likely wrong, as the MSS. read the second micra' 

 (metre muszari') 



U. Vullers p. 408, a. For the verse of Shaikh Auhadi read (metre 

 khafif) 



£* ois !,}» j\jj^j± y AW j\ &[y. * — ijt 



where some of my MSS. of the Jam i Jam read j\jj^ **» _j*. 

 " He (the king) writes out at once a money order, when he (the 

 paymaster) pays him (the poet) out of the two loads of money ordered 

 by the king, only half a load." 



The verse quoted for the fifth meaning, is given in good MSS. of 

 Hafiz as follows (metre Mutaqarib) — 



< JJ 



