1868] Contributions to Persian Lexicography. 49 



" It is ironi obstinacy that the Persians call this town Jahanab&d, 

 and not Shah-jahanabad." The emperor Bhahjahan was often ridiculed 

 by the Persians for assuming the title Si/ah of the world. Even the 

 then Sultan of Constantinople ( fjy j'^oj^k ) made once in a letter a 

 satirical remark on the emperor's magniloquence, when his clever 

 court poet Kalim got him out of the difficulty by composing an ode, 

 in which the following verse occurs (metre muszari') — 



" The words c^a (5 + 50 + 4= 59) and ulf* "(3 + 5 + 1 + 

 " 50 = 59) are in point of value the same ; hence the emperor has a 

 clear right to the title Shdhjahan" For this clever verse Kalim 

 received from the <^1-$J his weight in gold, and his ode was sent to 

 Constantinople. 



^i. chapparj p. 560 ; this word is the Hind.^x^. chhappar. 



JLSLxi. ch$tal. p. 607, This is a mistake often to be met with in 

 Persian books printed in Europe. The correct form is Jj^, with a 

 £ jim. The word is spelt by Abulfaszl in the A. A., p. 27, 1.4. 

 Nor is it a numus cuprinus^ but an imaginary division of a ddm, one 

 silver Rupee (of Akbar) being equivalent to forty copper dams. 

 " Accountants have divided the dam into 25 jetals" A. A., 1. c. 



|V*G«*j p- 918, a coin, the 8th of a gold muhur. Thus Vullers 

 from Johnson. It is the eighth part of a rupee, not of. a gold muhur. 



d^'idjd, dud dlud : p. 923, 3) n. s. nom. magni oppidi in Hindustan 

 F. sine exemph. This absurdity is'likewise supplied by the praeclarum 

 opus of F. Whoever heard of a town Duddlwl in India? It a blunder 

 for »ibfoJ)^ Daulatdbdd. 



J-^, II. p. 797 ; a reference to J3^ was required. So likewise, 

 j p. 920, under Jy, to W^ ; and under 8jP, p. 479 b., 1. 24., to IJ^gJ. 



Vullers is also most unfortunate with his oliU|. As the Iszafat 

 of the Persians is very badly treated in the existing Persian grammars, 



I trust I shall be excused for inserting here a few notes on the fakk 



• . *** • 

 * Iszafat ( cu*U( ^3 ) ; or the omission of the Iszafat, reserving some of 



Vullers' mistakes for foot notes. 



The Iszafat is omitted 



a. After v^^j j&°, O^i er*"*°> V^j lt^» f*^*°> J~i ( not m 



O o o ' o 



prose), *\*»» ; as — Jjv-^u^U^ JUS >^>.[*c } jsf y^c an admiral, ^X^>j'S^/o 



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