104 Notes on Strdjuddaulah and the town of Murshiddldd. [No. 2, 



Jj£ &c. The apodosis (*[>^) is generally introduced by words like 

 ^xjq (^j^j, Olr-ij&'t, oJjjijjJjii &c, which corresponds to Hindustani 

 correlative adverbs as v^ and v-S ^*- and y &c. Many phrases are 

 purely Hindustani, e. g. &)\i e)«*J<>j (3^ *^ sJU * ' Vir^-5 V-it^* ^ 

 "the building is remarkable, so that it has a connection with seeing," i. e. 

 il you must see the building to comprehend its beauty," or as one would 

 say in Hindustani ^LS^j &$&c ^w ^.§xjo> you must see it, in order to 

 judge. eW.ilji.jUi for the Persian o^jUi is the Hindustani &*5JjUSi 

 The phrase eA»|-^J cfH-^* for ^^j Ixa. is Hindustani for li L .&*| ^-^i^o. 

 The phrase ^-b (3<^** <-9/ c eJ;-J: /0 is Hind, for JJ^I/^jiJ^/o ^■Js /0 . The 

 author uses also many Hindustani words quite needlessly, e. g. 

 CJlji-^-h^yj^-^- &«ji for ii)|ji. *£j/° c^Aa^-wja. I was astonished to find 

 the following monstrosity in the chapter on Murshidabad Jj**.* jji j 



<{ It was also the custom of the former Nawabs to send in the 

 month of August for those government boats which were at Dacca." 

 The most learned Persian scholar, unacquainted with Hindustani, 

 would not know what to make of the *^ before C5 £&S'. It is very 

 good Hindustani* and stands for j.^-. Ia ^gi&S is Indian usage for 

 Lg.ji.&S', Hindustani authors also insist upon writing Sli^b for JsLw^b, 

 as aU has an obscene meaning (V. Bahar i 'Ajam). vlpl is a curious 

 Arabic plural of the Persian <_>j3 ; " The phrase" &Jj^o ^U-^l " plun- 

 dered things" is a serious blunder. It looks as if the author had made 

 a participle of the noun £jjLp mistaking the es for a radical. 



The handwriting of the MS. is a bad Shihastah. 



* k)\ w$$ o^*° *^*3 i^^^^a. ^x*) ^a«a: cJj^l^. 



