1868.] Contributions to Persian Lexicography. 59 



Sikandar Beg, in the sense of fauj i haruwal, an avantguard. Asr 

 (metre Hazaj) 



" If on the day of battle thy voice is the avantguard, the opponent 

 is easily defeated by the Muslims." From some commentary I have 

 copied the following passage — 



II *Hj£ ls^ IS***! 

 Hence a foraging party. As Vullers did not understand Bh., he 

 might have left otit his etymology. The word is connected with the 

 T. <^j^- chirik and ^ij*- chirik, vide Vullers, I. p. 572. 



The T. i-SyL? buloh, a troop, is likewise of frequent occurrence ; only 

 the pi. is not bulofcdn, as in Vullers, but o(£j-b bulohdt. 



LS^J^j-i burd o bdi, or is^jzy, burd o pdi, or ^Jjes^. bdio burd. 

 This word, which is often used by Indian Historians, means betting 

 on fighting rams or other animals. The margins of MSS. generally 

 explain it by the Hind. cua^Ia, which has the same meaning. I do 

 not know the meaning of (_jLj bdi. At the courts of the Mogul emperors 

 betting on animals was carried on to a great extent. Akbar had to 

 pass several limiting laws. 



(^>+&jj barhaman. In the poetry of Hindustan and the later poets 

 of Persia, the Brahmin is enamoured of the ^o canam, in the same 

 way as the nightingale of the rose ; the atom (8jS) and the chamelion. 

 (bj.-^.) of the sun; the Alii*, or the jj*i, of thej^-j sarw ; and the 

 moth of the candle. The following verse is sufistic (metre Bamal) — > 



" In reality there is no difference between the -lover and the object 

 loved — idle thinkers speak of the idol as distinct from the Brahmin." 

 The verse requires the pronunciation barhaman, not brahman or 

 barahman. 



^oju buyhdi, a kind of camel of high cost. So Shahsp. It would 

 be more correct to say dromedary. The Bactrian camel with two humps 

 (t^Mj*} dokuhani) is called in T.y^., jj^y., or, jj^j bughur. The latter 

 word is used by Indian historians, but is often confounded in the MSS. 

 with the Arab. ^*J ba'ir. Zenker's Turkish vocabulary gives the plena 

 scriptio jj?y., but he translates a dromedary, instead of a Bactrian 

 camel. 



