1868.] Contributions to Persian Lexicography. 59 



Sikandar Beg, in the sense of fanj i hardwal, an avantguard. Asr 

 (metre Hazaj) 



11 If on the day of battle thy voice is the avantguard, the opponent 

 is easily defeated by the Muslims." From some commentary I have 

 copied the following passage — 



Hence a foraging parti/. As Vullers did not understand Bh., he 

 might have left out his etymology. The word is connected with the 

 T. <J^.a. chvrih and ^b^. chirik, vide Vullers, I. p, 572. 



The T. t_(pJ bulok, a troop, is likewise of frequent occurrence ; only 

 the pi. is not buldkdn, as in Vullers, but o(^-L> buldkdt. 



ci^J^r? burd o bdi, or ls^jZJi burd o ptii, or <3yjL5^ bdio burd. 

 This word, which is often used by Indian Historians, means betting 

 on fighting rams or other animals. The margins of MSS. generally 

 explain it by the Hind, oj^jIa, which has the same meaning. I do 

 not know the meaning of is^i °^- At the courts of the Mogul emperors 

 betting on animals was carried on to a great extent. Akbar had to 

 pass several limiting laws. 



i^+kj, barhaman. In the poetry of Hindustan and the later poets 

 of Persia, the Brahmin is enamoured of the ^> canam, in the same 

 way as the nightingale of the rose ; the atom (*ji) and the chamelion 

 (bj.A.) of the sun; the *&*.li, or the jj<^, of thej^*» sario ; and the 

 moth of the candle. The following verse is sufistic (metre Ramal) — 

 oJ| ALU*, ^u-^j ) >^ ^^a.aJljj o^j^j i£^&**j (j-^ i-**JoAiftA. ,^ 

 " In reality there is no difference between the lover and the object 

 loved — idle thinkers speak of the idol as distinct from the Brahmin." 

 The verse requires the pronunciation barhaman, not brahman or 

 barahman. 



^tijo bughdi, a kind of camel of high cost. So Shahsp. It would 

 be more correct to say dromedary. The Bactrian camel with two humps 

 (c^ 1 * 5 ^ dokuhani) is called in T. jAj, jy>y ti or, jj^> bughur. The latter 

 word is used by Indian historians, but is often confounded in the MSS. 

 with the Arab, j**-* ba'ir. Zenker's Turkish vocabulary gives the plena 

 scriptio jy"j>, but he translates a dromedary, instead of a Bactrian 

 camel. 



