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axe, the weapon is called JyMj^ tabar zdghnol. If the axe has an 

 anvil-like piece of iron attached, it is called JU*^ tabar-takhrndqhom 

 the T o^y a hammer. Under JjUlj in Vnllers, II., p. 10b, a 

 read ** W eur«&*ZKc««, for ^ sagiUae bellicae, the Delhi edition of 



Bh. having wrongJHt"^ J# tir i sartiz > instead ° f ^^ T^' „ , < 

 JUJ tafoirfZ, to hand over, to give in charge ; hence ; |^ teftte.Wflr 



a cash keeper. Akbar had for his household a & j\*ks*> ^f^ZcWr ^ 



hull who gave advances to the various >-; I ^ tatortH* • J«* 

 The' latter furnished workmen, the people of the Harem, &c., with 



money for which they took receipts. The tahwilddr i hull stood under 

 the J* jW]^ fcftwfoeM * WZ the Treasurer General. ^^ taJuu^U 

 deposited, "handed over (money); hence a deposit. J*?** 4* fil* 

 tahwili, anew elephant waiting to be W^ over to the officer in 

 charge of a &^ ftafyafc, (elephants which have the same value), lne 

 wor d dijJ pi. Jfcl* 5 , or o%^, means also a deposit ; a « transfer" 



of money. 



VII. 



ADDITIONS AND COBBECTIONS. 



Page 5. 

 In the name of the fourteenth dictionary read 



kx~2>. husaini. 



In 33., several MSS. read ^j*** , instead of 



Page 6. 



The author of the forty-first dictionary is often mentioned in Indian 

 historians. He was, according to Badaoni, Qazi of Delhi. 



In the title of the fifty-third dictionary translate :-" The Dictionary 



of Muhammad ibn i Hindushah Munshi who wrote to the praise ( pU; ) 



of (the Amir) Ghias uddin Bashid." It would be against the idiom 



to translate-— "Who wrote under the name of Gh." This would be 



expressed by ^A v&>\ &** *** ■ Observe the final ^ in 



*x£> . The word *J&± in Persian, is followed by an abstract noun ; 



™u"say oib J>\± v uU he got the title of Khan; sjU v lkarf J\y^\ 



^4 jy> he was honored by the title of Malik ushshu'ara. But 



this is not the case with the participle ^h^° mukhdtab, which is 



followed by *> and the title itself ; you say ±& ^ ^&° he got 



the title of Khan; *A I^Jl ^ ^^°, &<*. The word f U ex P reSSeS 



often our alias; you say ^ J* J* r b c^Jv^ Khfinzainto, aZtat 



