104 Notes on Sirdjiiddaulah and the town of Murshiddodd. [No. 2, 



Jj$ &c. The apodosis (^jj-^) is generally introduced by words like 

 ^i^xj ^j^jj &\j*j&, *&>9j{&&& &c, which corresponds to Hindustani 

 correlative adverbs as v^ and v-S >^ and_p &c. Many phrases are 

 purely Hindustani, e. g. j>j!.> eJAjaJ <jJ-*3 *^ *&*»\ vir^ J V^f^ ^ 

 " the building is remarkable, so that it has a connection with seeing," i. e. 

 " you must see the building to comprehend its beauty," or as one would 

 say in Hindustani ^Ixtfj *■»&? d» ^-%H* you must see it, in order to 

 judge. ii>«*J|>£. jLJ for the Persian u^jUJ is the Hindustani tA^JJjUJ. 

 The phrase i^£&|«3jJ c5 , H-4 /0 f° r t^H ^ is Hindustani for li^J| ^^.x/o. 

 The phrase ^^ o^ o^* &>%<> is Hind, for JjciLoJo^^o c^j^o. The 

 author uses also many Hindustani words quite needlessly, e. g. 

 &\j~±&xiyQjj^. &*tj± for «Jl>^ *-J^^° CaAaAwj,*. I was astonished to find 

 the following monstrosity in the chapter on Murshidabad Jj**/o^jJ j 



" It was also the custom of the former Nawabs to send in the 

 month of August for those government boats which were at Dacca." 

 The most learned Persian scholar, unacquainted with Hindustani,] 

 would -not know what to make of the &Z before LS ±&$ '. It is very] 

 good Hindustani* and stands for j^. l& ^xLf is Indian usage fori 

 Ifl-xx&f. Hindustani authors also insist upon writing iU^b for 8L&.}L»,| 

 as ^b has an obscene meaning (V. Bahar i 'Ajam). ^\y\ is a curious! 

 Arabic plural of the Persian ^y, " The phrase" tijjxso ^5^1 " plun-l 

 dered things" is a serious blunder. It looks as if the author had made] 

 a participle of the noun v^jU mistaking the o for a radical. 



The handwriting of the MS. is a bad Shikastah. 



* <?\ \a%& &$* *^ A 3 &m*&fjj$ v#o J^>o &j±^. 



