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%js: x i pinjarah lattice work, framework, used for hedging in 

 flower beds, or as supports for creepers ( SjLj bayarah*). Pieces of 

 wood or bamboo are stuck into the ground, at proper intervals, 

 and cross-pieces are tied to them. The shape of the interstices may- 

 be varied by differently arranging the sticks. In the kind called 

 ijjSt-*-=?- ja'fari, each interstice is a rhombus, the sticks being placed 

 obliquely, but parallel, into the ground ; and so also the cross-sticks, 

 which incline, however, to the other side. In ^sr^k-i shatranji, the 

 pieces stand at right-angles to each other. More costly are the kinds 

 &j£ gird, where the interstices present the appearance of a square with 

 a circle inscribed in it ; j<*>tJ»Ji> shash-sar hexagonal, j^'idj]^ duivdzdah- 

 sar twelve-sided. The ja'fari and shatranji may be ^^^jri^ ghair 

 loacli, not tied, where the sticks are not tied to each other with 

 strings ; the other kinds are i ^ a j ivagli, as strings are required. 



In Vullers' article lsj* 1 *-^: P- 517, the third meaning is the same 

 as the fifth ; Shakspeare's etymology from *}*&*> is wrong. 



ii>l==^ pechdn, 1. twisting ; 2. twisted. The passive meaning seems 

 to be the usual meaning. Sanjar of Kashan (metre Rajaz) 



" (I come from the monastery) with the cord tied round the waist, 

 and the gong under my arm." Vide another example in Vull. I. p. 597, 

 1. 1. Similarly L«>lx*> shindsd knowing, and ^ ass., known, as &£=J.L& ; 

 but the passive meaning is rare ; vide A. A. p. 284, 1. 7 ; \ji^ 

 pidzird, accepting^ and accepted. 



<30.ij j^ pir i pambali a scarecrow. Vullers' meaning is unsup- 

 ported. 



AJU-u paimdnah. The paimdnali is larger than the r-^. 



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^jjG tdbin, Inf. II. of ^\ ; vide Lane's Ar. Diet. p. 9. c, a hading 

 on, the same as LSjyt-4 pairawi. Indian Historians use this word as an 

 ism i fail, X^^^SJStf, a leader, pi. ot#lj tabindt leaders, officers ; vide 

 A. A. p. 191, 1. 17 ; p. 193, 1. 1. ^-Uj^jjG tdbin bdshi a superior 

 commanding officer, p. 196, 1. 20. Thus also often in the Padishah- 

 namah. 



* Vullers has s. !5jLj a reference to &j^j botah ; but botah is not a creeper ; 

 it is a plant capable of standing without support. 



