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1. 2. the meaning of ^T % is not clear ; I have rendered it as if it were 

 for ^\ %. 



1. 3. <*t?Ml^ is always found in connection with names of races inhabit- 

 ing Persia and Afghanistan, and is therefore conjectured to be a corruption 

 of the word Jl>^y. 



1. 7. ^ has many meanings, it is here taken to mean ' alone', in the 

 light of the rendering of the nest line. 



9. The chiefs -were scattered, and the servants of the Shah were plundered, 



Elephants, horses, and camels led by the nose-rein he has driven and brought in, 



Why did all remain astonished, nothing was plundered from him. 



Shah Jahan dejected begged for pardon. 



Life indeed is thine in the world, Jagat Singh ; 



As much nectar as thou hast drunk, so much indeed thou hast well carried. 



Lines 3 and 4 are obscure, and are therefore left untranslated, as the 

 meaning which they seem to bear is not easily to be got out of the words. 



L 5. Khmycm. In Panjabi khiisnd means ' to be plundered'. 



1. 6. The word written, jhupke is not certain. If the reading is correct, 

 it would, I think, mean ' bowing', or metaphorically' depressed'. This is con- 

 firmed by the nest two words, djiz (Arabic, J^^) mandiia, i. e. to confess 

 oneself weak, to beg for pardon. 



1. 8. Pachdnd or pachcmnd, Panj., literally ' to digest', but freely used in 

 conversation in the sense of shewing that one has digested, that is, shewing 

 by one's actions that one worthily bears, or is worthy of, honor, rank, or the 

 like. The bai'd appears to mean that Jagat by his actions has carried im- 

 mortality ; this he expresses by saying he has drunk amrila, and has digested 

 it, so that it gives him strength and heroism, which he shows in the war he 

 is, now carrying on. 



10. The Lord of the world has made Sri Jagata lord, he has undertaken the 



protection of the heroes, 

 The warlike Rajputs have run to join him, they have made a smiting with 



arrows of battle, 

 Again and again he shouts to his hosts, the caution of the Mirs went astray, 

 Whosoever came and joined them became faint-hearted, they have gone to 



divide the sweetmeats of the Pirs. 



1. 4. This may mean that they have to make offerings (sirni = ^jtA) 

 to their saints, to invoke their aid, being discouraged by their defeat. 



11. King of kings, great king, lord Jagat Singh, 

 Trembles ever the Shah at thy sword ; 



Thy era has been established in all [lands], 

 Thy boundary is set up on both sides of the Indus, 

 King, son of Basudev, quoth Gambhir Eai, 

 All the mountains are supported by the strength of thy arm. 

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