44 Contributions to Persian Lexicography. [No. 1, 



JZ. Vullers' verse from the Shahnamah is given in Bashidi as 

 follows : — . ' 



~S^ bn'rn^. Vullers quotes from F. the following verse of Nizami- 



and says :— " in quo tamen falso et contra metrum legitur ^J. 

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



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



instead of^> fa'ulun ! My MSS. read correctly 



& j^^j *te J^ky ^ j & b ***** ** ^ 



1E7 In the verse of Amir Khusrau read J-j jd instead of Vullers' 

 JUjya 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 ^ is an adjective, 

 and the same as the J&J of the fifth meaning. 



^ 3) perturbatio. For Vullers' verse from the Shahnamah 



"~Iy iM -j <-^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 8 ^ *** b lA ^ ^ 



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

 the verse quoted belongs to &*>& H-, but not to ^ fiW * 

 having changed the order of the meanings given m the FJ. lhe#** 

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

 (metre muszari') 



**> &\y. * [ > &j—*> t U ^ 

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

 khafif) „ . 



where some of my MSS.- of the Jam i Jam read j^L «- 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 m good MSS. ol 

 Hafiz as follows (metre Mutaqarib)— 



