CO

P3 OU 160928 >m
 OSMANIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Author

This book should be retiwon or

before thee
MlRZA CHAN'S GRAMMAR OF THE BRAJ
BHAKHA
Visva-Bharati Series No. 3

A GRAMMAR OF THE BRAJ BHAKHA

by
MIRZA KHAN (1676 A.D.)

The Persian Text critically editedfrom original MSS., with an

Introduction, Translation and Notes, together with the
contents of the Tuhfatu-l-Hiwd

by
M. ZIAUDDIN,
Lecturer in Persian, Visva-Bharati,
Santiniketan

With a Foreword by
SUNITT KUMAR CHATTER.TI. M.A., D.Litt. (Lond.)

VISVA-BHARATI BOOK-SHOP
210, CORNWALLIS STREET, CALCUTTA
 VISVA-BHARATI BOOK -SHOP
2 10, Cornwallis Street, Calcutta

Printed by P. Knight, at the Baptist Mission Press

4lA, Lower Circular Road, Calcutta
&
Published by Kishorimohan Santra
Visva-Bharati Book-Shop
210, Cornwallis Street, Calcutta
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
FOREWORD . . . . . . . . vii-xi

INTUODUCTION .. .. .. .. 1-3H
SCHEME FOR TRANSLITERATION .. .. ..11-12
CONTENTS or THE TUHFATV-L-HLNU .. .. 13-33
ON THE GRAMMATICAL LAWS OF THE BRAJ BHAKHA . . .'M-4J*

T^KSIAN TEXT . . . . . . . . 51-91

 LIST OF PLATES

Page
Plate I Facsimile of the fol. 1 b. (A) 2

Plate II Do 5 b. (A) 11

Plate III Do 17 a. (A) 14

Plate VI Do 371 b. (A) 33
 FOREWORD
The present work is an interesting specimen of Indo-Moslem
literature which is important from various points of view. It is,
to start with, the product of a new type of humanism which arose
among Indian Musalmans in the 16th and 17th centuries, the attempt
of Akbar the Great to bring about a synthesis of the old culture
of India with that (mainly Persian) brought in by the early Muham-
madan invaders of India supplying the immediate impetus and in-
spiration. When the young and virile Arab race destroyed the effete
Byzantine rule in Western Asia and the Sasanian empire in Persia and
established an Arab empire at Damascus and subsequently at Baghdad,
the culture of the Hellenistic world united with the monotheism and
practices of Islam and became a great civilizing force in the Near
East, a great conservator of ancient learning and science as well as an
adventurer in the quest of knowledge. A veritable renaissance of
science and learning, comparable only to the European Renaissance of
the 15th and 16th centuries, was inaugurated by Islam at Baghdad
and elsewhere, which continued for some centuries from the 8th
century onwards. Investigation started in the world of both Nature
and Man. Arab explorers and geographers extended the bounds of
civilized enterprise and trade. Arabic -using scholars sought to find
out all that was worth preserving for the good of humanity, and
philosophers and others busied themselves with human experience
and human conduct, with the sciences and with philosophy. As an
epitome of the scope of this early period of intellectual renaissance
under the banner of Islam may be mentioned the encyclopaedic Fihrist
of Muhammad Ibn al-Nadim al-Baghdadi (died 995 A.D.). A younger
contemporary of this scholar was the illustrious Abu Rayhan al-
Biruni of Khwarizm (Khiva) (973-1048), whose Al-Tahqlq al-Hind
is the first scientific treatise on the culture of the Hindus based on
first-hand information and research, which after the slumber of a
long number of centuries rekindled the torch of scientific curiosity
about remote and civilized peoples which was first lighted by the
Greeks (and also by the Chinese independently of the Greeks), as a
result of which the world has been enriched by works like the History
of Herodotos. Al-Blrum's work on India is a mine of precious in-
formation, assiduously gathered by reference to original sources and
sympathetically presented, on the civilization and thought of the
Hindus in the 10th and llth centuries A.D., and is in the direct line
of the lost Indika of Megasthenes, forming a chronological link between
the Greeks and recent Western investigators on the subject.
The Turk came to India as a conqueror and an image-breaker,
filled with zeal of the knights of God who were fighting His battles

against the infidel. He compromised with his Hindu subjects when he

found he was to stay and rule he made a gesture of advance in thin
compromise by continuing for a time the Hindu designs on his coins,
even when these were iconic, and by translating into the Hindus'
language the wort Is of his Arabic creed as Aw/aktaw ekam, Mukammada
avatdra which he stamped in Indian letters on some of his coins. But
he would not care for the civilization or thought of his Hindu subjects,
for which he line I generally a devout monotheistic IVluhammadan's
contempt, and on occasions an awed sense of something deep and
mysterious actually existing behind all the caste-observances and
ritual with images, and behind the wajT s of the Yogis, which struck
him at lirst sight only as mummery and unholy usages of the infidel.
The Turkish conquerors might, consult a Brahman astrologer or a
Yogi here and there, but during the first, two or throe stormy centuries
of conquest there was not much scope in the ordu or the camp (and
court) of the Turks for sympathetic study of Indian ways. A handful
of believers in a land ol Kdfrs, it would not be in keeping with their
sense, of prestige and discipline cither, to do so. Gradually the Turk
disappeared among the masses of the Indians, considerable numbers
of whom adopted the taith of the conquerors, became their brothers
in faith and brothers in arms, and so swamped them by their
superior numbers. The Persian, Afghan, and other foreign Musalman
followers of the Turks shared the same fate The strong arm of the
Turk became a memory and a name the newly-born Indian Musalman
:

inherited the tradil ions of the Turk as the strong conqueror. Although
this new Indian Musalman element was frequently strengthened by
fresh foreign blood in the shape of streams of Turki, Afghan, and
Persian adventurers which flowed into India, the basic tone in the
formation of a Musalman culture and a Musalman mentality in India
was supplied by Indiii herself. Before the coming of the Moguls
under Babar, the Indian Musalman had established his position as a
noteworthy element among the peupladas of the land, and ho was busy
absorbing .all in-coming foreigners. Musalman culture in India could
no longer look upon the native Hindu culture of India as something
distant or foreign, or something alien to its own life.
This was the positi on in the 16th century. The spirit of Abu-1-Fazl
was quite different from that of Al-Birum. The spirit of the earlier
scholar was that of research into the ways and thought of a foreign
people, while Abu-l-Fazl's object was the description and exposition of
the life and thought and world of ideas of the bigger section of the
people for the benefit of the elite, the upper class, who were to a large
extent of foreign blood, it is true, but who nevertheless were more
or loss familiar with the life and thought of their Hindu neighbours
and were keenly interested in them. There was also in this attitude
an eye on the cultured Muhammadan world outside, especially in
Persia, in Central Asia, and in Turkey, which countries could be
approached through the Persian language there was a desire to hold
:

forth the marvels of the land of Hindustan which boasted of a cul-

tured Moslem population as well. This attitude of the 16th, 17th and
18th century Moslem writers towards the native culture of India has
continued to our day the position is best illustrated by that of an
:

Indian Musalman student from Hyderabad-Deccan whom I had found

in the drawing room of a students' hostel in London, discoursing with
great gusto on the miraculous powers of the Hindu Yogis of his coun-
try, before an interested group of British and continental young men.
This attitude of the Indian Musalmans, largely Indian and
partly foreign in blood, the foreign element wholly absorbed and
Indiani zed, was not one of mere idle curiosity or good humoured
tolerance it was scientific as well. The A'in-i-Akbari of Abu-1-Fazl
;

is an official document of highest importance it is the first of official

;

gazetteers on India, the prototype of English official and semi-official

literature on the subject. Apart from its administrative, revenue
and trade details, which form a sort of official blue-book for Akbar's
reign, the portions dealing with the various aspects of Indian civiliza-
tion are a scholar's compilation, written by an Indian mainly for a
certain section of Indians and for those foreigners who would feel an
interest in the subject. The language employed, Persian, is but second-
ary nowadays a Hindu or a Muhammadan scholar in India trained in
:

English will write a book on Hindu or Muhammadan history or culture

in English, and usually not in the vernacular, although few English-
men would read it. The home-language of the Moguls from the time
of Akbar onwards was some kind of Hindi dialect Braj, or an early
form of Hindustani, but Persian was employed for any written com-
munication or order or report, or history, and for belles-lettres. Verna-
cular literature was encouraged, during the 16th and 17th centuries,
only as a aide-show. Verses in Braj-bhakha ascribed to Akbar are to
be found in Hindi anthologies, and there is an evidence that Aurangzeb
himself composed distichs in the vernacular. Aurangzeb himself was
interested in the proper orthography of Hindi words in the Persian
alphabet, the official script ;he was the first known reformer of
Hindustani spelling (See Introduction, foot-note, p. 3).
Mirza Khan Ibn Fafcbru-d-Dln Muhammad, the author of the
Tuhfatu-l-Hind,, composed his interesting and important work some-
time before 1675 A.D. (see p. 12 of the Introduction). The Contents
of his work (as given in pp. 12-32 of the Introduction) indicates its
scope and we may be quite certain that all the various topics treated
;

in the work interested the Musalman nobility and court circles of the
Mogul court at the end of the 17th century. A treatise in Persian,
with a scientific aspect, would be quite welcome to the elegant world
of the court and as Urdu poetry was still in its infancy, an introduc-
;

tion to the language, metrics and rhetoric as well as the subject-

matter of the current vernacular poetry in Braj-bhakha which had
cast its spell on the princes and noblemen of the Indian Musalman
court of Delhi and Agra, now Mogul or foreign only in name, would
not be unwelcome. Hence this treatise with its painstaking exposi-
tion in Persian of the pronunciation of Braj-bhakha, on its proper
transcription (the author takes considerable pains to get over the
inadequacy of the Perso-Arabic script for Hindi) and its stray notes
on the Grammar of the language which forms the Introduction to
the entire work with its section on Braj-bhakha Prosody (including
;

Rime), on Rhetoric, and on the subject-matter of Braj love-poetry

the types of men and women in love (nayaka-nayika-bheda), etc. on ;

Music (including the various kinds or styles of songs, and the Ragas
and Raginis, and with sections on Persian Music, cultivated side by
side with the Hindu music in the Mogul court) on Erotics and sexual
;

'
of Northern India, studied with
'

science, the popular Kok-shastar

considerable interest in a self-indulgent courtly circle and finally,
;

'
on Samudrik or palmistry and phrenology. This is followed by
'

a Hindi-Persian dictionary of over 3,000 words.

The author appears to have shown his originality in the section
on Pronunciation and Orthography and Grammar, and in the
Dictionary. For the rest, there were Hindi (or Braj) treatises in plenty
to draw from. But in the portions on the sounds of Hindi and their
representation by means of Perso-Arabic letters, Mirza Khan shows
himself to be a careful observer. He has a difficult task to perform,
viz. to make intelligible the sounds and symbols of Hindi to a person
who is supposed to know only Persian. His observation is careful,
but his deductions and definitions are not strictly scientific they are
popular'. For example, ^=d he calls ddl-i-khaflfah or 'lighter' d,
but the aspirate ydh
is described as dal-i-saqilah or
'

heavy d, the
'

cerebral =d as ddl-i-musqilah or d rendering itself heavy and the

l '

aspirate cerebral TS=dh as ddl-i-asqal or 'heaviest' d. These terms

*

heavy '. etc. are as wide of the mark as hard or soft ', or
' ' '

light ',
'strong' or 'weak ', in the vague descriptions of unfamiliar sounds
given in English and other European grammars of Arabic, Hindustani
and other eastern languages. But Mirza Khan's analysis of the
sounds is well worth a careful study and it is to be hoped that this
;

portion of his Tuhfat will be made available to students of Phonetics

and Indo-Aryan linguistics, by Mr. Ziauddin, our present editor, or
some other scholar. It is interesting to note that Mlrza Khan has
observed the aspirates *3 ^, and ^ (mh, nh, Ik) as single sounds, and
that he has noted two kinds of nasalization one, a full nasalization
which he indicates by (styled nun-i-inaplinunah) and the other is
,

' '

probably a kind of reduced nasal which he calls nun-i-munawwandh

differentiated by the editor as ^j. Mirza Chan's anxiety to see that his
Hindi words are not misspelt makes him remarkably painstaking, for
he gives after each Hindi word in his text (written, of course, in the
Perso-Arabic character) a full spelling of the word, naming each letter
with the distinctive name he has invented for it an elaborate and an
exceedingly tedious process. '
The present work includes only the section on the Grammatical
Laws of the Bhakha ', forming Section II of Chapter IV of the
Introduction of this big work. The various sub-sections enumerated
in the List of Contents (on pp. 13-14) fully explain its scope.
The Sanskrit grammatical terms ER applied to Hindi of the 17th
century are interesting. The important topics are touched, and
although this section is not very long (barely 16 pages in the present
edition), it compares favourably with the oldest grammars of Indo-
Aryan vernaculars written by European writers (e.g. the Hindustani
Grammar of Jakob Josua Ketelaer, and the Bengali Grammar of Padre
Manoel da Assumpcam, both published in 1743, the first from Leiden
and the second from Lisbon).
The Braj-bhakha grammar in the Tulifat would appear to be the
oldest grammar of a, Modern Indo-Aryan vernacular that has so far
come to light. The same may be said of the Dictionary. When
Mr. M. Ziauddin of the Visva-bharati told me about the Tuhfat, it
interested me greatly, and the care taken by the original author in
transcribing the Hindi words appeared to me to be a specially valu-
able feature of the work. Mr. Ziauddin thought of publishing the
vocabulary only, but at my suggestion he took in hand the grammai
as well. I repeat the hope that he will soon take in hand the section
on Orthography and Prosody (including also Rime). This will give us
some materials of unique value for studying the linguistics of Hindi,
particularly the phonetics and phonology of the Hindi of the late
medieval period.
Mr. Ziauddin has done his editing and translating work con-
scientiously and has taken pains over his Introduction, which tells us
all that can be known about the author and all that is worth knowing
about the work. He deserves (with the Visva-bharati which is publish-
ing the work) the thanks of students of Indian linguistics for making
this work available, at least in some of HK parts (in the Grammar
portion, and in the Dictionary which will be issued shortly). The
work was previously referred to and used by Sir William Jones as
early as 1784. Since then it has remained closed in its MSS. and
has not been utilised by scholars. Through the labours of Mr.
Ziauddin, Mlrza Khan speaks once more and tells us about the Braj-
bhakha language and poetry, a subject in which he was thoroughly at
home and which was so very near his heart.

The University, Calcutta, SUNITI KITMAB CHATTBBJI.

February 1st, 1935.
 INTRODUCTION
The Grammar of tho Braj Bhakha, of which the Persian text and
'
an English translation are here offered, originally forms part of the
'

Introductory Chapter of the TuJifatu-l-HiTtd by Mirza Khan ibn '

FakJbru-d-Dln Muhammad.
1
Tuhfatu-l-Hind (lit., a Present from
India '), was first referred to with some details by Sir William Jones,
in his article On the Musical Modes of the Hindus ', which he wrote
'

in 1784 A.D. 2 In this article he has amply drawn upon the material
supplied in the Tuhfat, and introduces tho work and the author to his
readers thus 'The Persian Book, entitled "a present from India",
:

was composed, under the patronage of A'zam Shah, by the very

diligent and ingenious Mirza Khan, and contains a minute account of
Hindu literature in all or most of its branches he professes to have ;

extracted his elaborate chapter on music, with the assistance of

Pandits, from Rdgdn^va, or Sea of Passions, the Rdgderpana, or
Mirror of Modes, the Sabhdvinoda, or Delight of Assemblies, and
from other approved treatises in Sanskrit '. 8

THE PREFACE OF THE TTJHFAT.

The MS.of the Tuhfat that Sir William Jones studied, now
belongs to the India Office Library (No. LXXVIII, 18x19^, ff.431,
II. 15, p. 106), and has beon kindly lent to the Visva-bharatl for
my use. The MS. bears ample notes on its margins in Sir William
Jones' hand that show how minutely some of the chapters had been
studied by him, specially those of the Grammar and Music and the
last which is a Dictionary of the Hindi language. This MS. was
presented to him, as stated on the fly-leaf, by a certain 'All Ibrahim
Khalil, in 1199/1784 A.D. There is a seal under this statement which
reads All Ibrahim Khan Bahadur, 1783 '.
:
'
The MS. is written in
fair nasta'liq and is dated by the scribe Shahr Yar Khan, on fol.
'

298a Finished, 28th Rajab, 1182 A.H., Friday, three hours after
:

sunrise '. Another date in a different hand, on the same fol. is :

16th Shawwal, 1182 A.H. '. On fol. 4316 the scribe concludes
c
:

Finished with utmost care in copying from and comparison with the
'

'

original, on the 5th Zi-1-Qa'dah, 1182 A.H.

1 Lochmi Narayan Shafiq has mentioned Mirza Khan in his Gul-i-Ra'na,

Ixr; JIT, a Biographical Dictionary of Indian Poets, and this reference is perhaps
the earliest yet known.
2 Published in the 3rd Vol. of the Asiatic Researches, p. 65.
s Other works mentioned
by Mirza Khan are, Rdg-mald and Sangto-darpan.
The latter was originally composed for Rajah Mansingh of Gwaliar, as its Sanskrit
title Mdna-kutiihala signifies. Faqirullah Khan translated it into Persian in
about 1076/1 066 A.D.
 Mr. 0. Bieu does not mention, we do not know why, the Grammar
of the Braj Bkakha in his list of the contents of the Tuhfat, although
some catalogues have mentioned it. Nor does he refer to the
1 '

Terminating Chapter of the work, which is a Dictionary of the Hindi

language and covers half its bulk. It seems that Mr. 0. Bieu was
misled by the ambiguous title of the last chapter Kb&timah ', and took
'

it to mean the usual <*> of Persian works. In fact, three chapters

j*U3
and not two, as Mr. C. Bieu has mentioned, are wanting in the British
Museum copy.
As stated in the preface of the Tuhfat, the work was composed
during the reign of the Emperor Aurangzlb 'Alamglr : x^ ^
(fol. 16). The author has devoted about two pages to the eulogy of
the king. All MSS. contain this identical praise of the king and
agree thus far that the work was composed within the lifetime of
'Alamglr. There is, however, this difficulty to be faced that some
MSS. in their preface mention the prince A'gam Shah as the patron
of the author, 1 while others bear the name of the prince Mu'izzu-d-Dfn
Jahandar Shah, along with that of Kukultash Kb an at whose request
the work is stated in such MBS. to have been originally composed.
The brief praise of Kukultash Kb&n includes the phrase ' razi' i-Shah '
*U -*>, i.e. ' the foster brother to the king ', which determines the
identity of Kukultash KWn as one who received his title
'
Kb&n
Jah&n Bahadur Zafar Jang', in 1086/1676 A.D. As this title is not
mentioned along with his name, Mr. C. Bieu infers the date of the
work to be before 1086/1676 A.D.* Moreover the relation of foster-
brothership with 'Alamglr, rules out the other Kukultash b&n,
named 'AH Murad Eban, who is very liable to be confused with the
former because of his foster-brotherhood and close intimacy with
Jahandar Shah. This Kukultash Kb an had governed the province of
Multan, as Mr. C. Bieu has mentioned, in the name of the young
prince Jahandar Shah and finally lost his life fighting for Jahandar
Shah against FarrukJJ Siyar, in 1713 A.D. To complete the confusion,
he had also received the same title of Kb an Jahan, from Jahandar
Shah, in 1712 A.D. The former Kukultash ban, Malik Husain
'

HJaw&fl, was distinguished as AlamgM, and used to boast of his foster-

'
brotherhood with Alamglr. bifi Kfrftn iu his narration of the events
*
of 1094 A.H. says :He (i.e. Kukultash Kb&n) claiming relationship as
foster-brother, used a language that does not become a gentleman '.*

1 Sir William Jones has the

following incorrect note in the margin against
the word A'gam Shlih, Surnamed afterwards Bahader Shah, Muhhemmed
:
'

A'adhezn Shah or A'aem 1678*1687, from introduction Hindy Literature '.

2 Rieu's Cat., Vol. I, Ma&fiirul-Umara, Vol. I, p. 798, 801 (1801).
p. 62.
Ma5flir-i-<SlamgM, p. 142.
8
Mtmtafebab-al-Lubab, 1874, Vol. H, p. 299.
 ^^^

B.v courtesy of the Librarian of the India Office Library

Reduced Facnimile of fol. 1 b. MB. A.
 3

I may mention here that the statement in the Oat. of the Public
'
Oriental Lib. at Patna that the author wrote the work at the request
of Kukultash Kfran ior the prince Mu'izzu-d-Din Jahandar Shah ',
does not ooour in the MS. preserved in that library, nor even the
names quoted here. On the contrary it agrees with the India Office
Lib. MS. and that of W. Pertsch's Oat. and contains the praise of
A'zam Shah. The Bodleian Oat. mentions Jahandar Shah as the son
of 'Alamgir which is also confusing. The year of the birth of Jahandar
Shah, given in Mr. 0. Rieu's Oat., 1071 A.H., is carelessly quoted as
the year of the birth of MlrzS fc&n, in the India Office Oat. of Two
*

'
Collections of Persian and Arabic MSS., 1902, p. 59. In this Catalogue
the name of the author is given as Mlrza Muhammad ibn Fakbru-
d-Dln Muhammad, while the MS. itself has Mlrza &b&n ibn Faldiru-
d-Dln Muhammad.
As regards the actual patron of the author, I think, Jahandar
Shah and Kukultash Khan's names are both later insertions in the
preface. While, on the other hand, there is no apparent reason why
A'zam Shah's name should have been substituted for that of Jahandar
Shah. A'zam Shah was defeated by his brother Mu'azzam Shah in
the battle-field of Akbarabad in 1707 A.D., in which he lost his life.
Mu'azzam Shah ruled as Bahadur Shah for five years and his son
Jahandar Shah succeeded him. It is obvious that A'zam Shah's
name could not have been put in later.
A'zam Shah was a great patron of Bhakha language and the
poets who wrote in it. The poet Niwaj of the Doab translated the
Sakuntala of Kalidasa into Bhakha by his order. The verses of
the Sat-Sal of Bihar! Lai Ohaube were arranged in the order in which
they now stand, for A'zam Shah's use, hence the name of the modern
recension Sat -Sal A'zam Shah! \ l
'

* Itmay be noted here that Khan Mir Had!, the Dlwan of the prince
A 'gam Shah, the patron of our author, was a scholar of Hindi language. His dis-
cussion with 'Alamgir concerning the orthography of certain Hindi words should
be of interest here. When after his imprisonment he was made the Secretary
of the Daru-l-Insha he had a talk with the king about the transliteration of
certain Hindi letters into Persian, which the author of the Maaairu-1-Umara
(Vol. II, p. 38) has quoted from Khan Arzu. Khan Mir HadI said A ( :
), though
I

included in the Hindi alphabet is not used as a consonant letter in words.

Instead of = and *, in Hindi they have a letter called 'kana*
(
Ul^, (qnTT~T)
which they use as initial, medial and final. Out of these 12 vowels this kana, i.e.
a, \, resembles in form and sound the Persian a, vJUI. In the first period of
Islamic rule in India, the translators and Persian authors wrongly used h, g
for the original a, for example, they wrote Bangalah and M&lwah for Bangala
and Malwa. The king being convinced of this mistake, ordered his office-
bearers that such words henceforward should be written with final a and not h.
Alamgir also possessed some knowledge of Hindi as most princes learnt this
language. He had in his court the following Hindi poets whom he patronized :,
Kali-Das Tribedl, Ishwar, Samant, Krishna, Indrajit and, the poet Tripathl
;

who served him in some other capacity. (The Modern Vernacular Literature
of Hindustan, Sir G. A. Grierson, 1880, pp. 67-80.)
 Nothing is yet known about the author himself. His name is

differently given in different MSS. W. Pertsch's Cat. (1888, p. 83,

No. 34 or 40, 224), gives the name as Mirza Jan ibn Fakhru-d-Dla
Muhammad, while the British Museum Cat. (MS. No. ADD. 16, 868),
and also the Bodleian Lib. Cat. (p. 10226), give the name of the author
as Mirza Muhammad ibn Fakhru-d-Dln Muhammad, without any
Khan or Jan.

In preparing the text of the Grammar I have used only three

MSS., viz.: The India Office MS. (MS. A), the Asiatic Society
of Bengal's MS. (MS. B), and the Oriental Public Library of Patna's
MS. (MS. C). As the Patna Lib. MS. could not be lent, I brought
a copy of the grammar portion of that MS. I have preferred to
use the India Office MS. as basis for my collation as it happens
to be the best of the three. The Patna Lib. MS. is not guilty of so
many omissions as the Asiatic Society's MS. is, and, from the stand-
point of its calligraphy, is the best written of the three, but that is a
small comfort for the scribe seems to have had absolutely no idea of
what he was copying.

SUBJECTS or THE TUHFAT.

The Tufyfatu-l-Hind treats of the Hindi literature that existed
on a variety of subjects of ordinary as well as of strictly academic
interest, e.g. palmistry, dancing, music, prosody, rhetoric, lexico-
graphy, etc. and that had developed certain special characteristics
among the people who spoke Hind! or Braj Bhakha as their language.
The work is fairly comprehensive in treatment and, as an example
;

of the study of Indian vernaculars by Muslim scholars, as also as a

substantial contribution to the advancement of the particular language
concerned, is of singular importance. One feels while going through
the work that the author has tried to make sure that the Hindi language
with all its fundamentals should be safe within the pages of this one
book at least, even though all other literature on the subjects got lost
or destroyed. The amount of study and labour poured on this work,
considering the lack of material on which the author could draw,
at least for some of his chapters, is undoubtedly tremendous.
One notable feature of the author is that he is very practical.
He exclusively concerns himself with the practice and technique of
the arts ho deals with, and after having defined and explained the
principles, he at once launches on detail and gives a full account of
those principles as they function in their respective fields. It would
be admitted that his work is not merely a translation or a compilation
based on some Hindi or Sanskrit works, as earlier studies had mainly
been. The Tuftfat does not only postulate what Hindi works contain
on the subjects concerned, but it is also a genuine and successful step
towards assimilating their matter into Muslim literature and life.
While authors before Mirza Khan had been mostly mere interpreters
of Indian culture, Mirza Khan can claim the distinction of being both an
interpreter and one who tried effectively to assimilate and master the
vernacular and its literary graces, so that his community might be
able to use these as vehicles for the expression of their newly- developed
Indo-Muslim consciousness of a newly-found Hindu-Muslim intellectual
atmosphere. The Muslim authors, who had stuck so far to the Persian
language as their hereditarily received medium of self-expression,
although Persian was no longer very natural to them, found out
that their contact with Persian and its literary background had to
a great extent been severed some time before, and that there was
every reason for taking to the spoken vernaculars more seriously than
heretofore. Such was indeed the advice that our great Urdu poet
Sauda received and which made him finally give up composing
verses in Persian and take up (Hindostani) Urdu for the purpose. 1
The Muslims born in India and born mostly of mixed parentage
had lost that natural and genuine control over the Persian language
which alone could assure the literary worth of their work. They
had already begun to feel their very ambiguous position between the
current vernacular and their literary Persian. The vernacular had
alread}' been adopted and developed to serve as a medium for literary
work. The Urdu poets had long begun to sing in Urdu and their
prosody, the subject of their poetry, as well as their poetical devices
like metaphor, allusions, etc. were, as was natural, borrowed wholesale
from the Persian language. This procedure gradually Persianized the
Urdu tongue. And j ust here it is where Mirza Khan steps in to mend
matters. He attempted to bring the Bhakha or the current Hind!
into closer touch with the Muslims. He tried to put before them
the means of studying the Bhakha literature. He gave them its
grammatical laws, its prosody, rhetoric, music, and the subjects of its
poetical treatment, manners of expression, conventions, the con-
ception of love in Hindu poetry, and a dictionary of the current
Bhakha but unfortunately he appeared rather too late.
;

Mirza Khan's vocabulary proves that he deals with a language

which is not strictly literary Bhakha nor Hindi, but the colloquial
Bhakha. Wefind that the final au and at (^ft and $), which are
characteristic of literary Bhakha, change into a (**) and a ( ^T ) in the
colloquial (Hindostani), and which, as a distinct tendency, had been
fast developing by the end of the 16th century. In modern Hindi or

1 Thus Sauda quotes his words :

 6

Urdu it is lately that we lost the Braj or Panjabi penultimate y,

which was so strongly present in the old Urdu of the Doccan. We
now say bold he said ', lagd began ', kahd said ', but in the
:
' ' '

old Urdu we have boliyd, for the Braj boliyau, lagiyd, for the Braj
:

'

lagiyau, and such also are the words basriyd passed away ', dekhiyd
:

' ' ' l

saw ', sftwdriyd decorated ', liyayd brought ', bhariyd filled ', and
rakhiyd 'kept', etc. These ~y- forms are still used in the Panjabi.
Insha-Allah Khan's Hindi tale L5&^' ^j bears examples of such words.

step that Mlrza Khan took in the Tuhfat was

One very important
the spelling of Hindi words according to a definite system of translitera-
tion, which is explained at length in the Introductory Chapter. He
compares the Hindi, Arabic, and Persian alphabets, points out the
comparative lack of sounds along with such as are common to them.
He reproduces in Arabic characters all peculiarly Hindi sounds
(excepting r which he seems to have never heard), by distinguishing
them by diacritical marks and with designations that suggest the
required change in pronunciation. For example, for the Hindi
characters ft, t, and th, the nearest approach in Arabic and Persian
is ^
t, i.e. <ylv

for th, t, and th.

^
tai-fauqam. It is taken to serve the basic sound
If the Arabic t be assigned the quality of hardness
of pronunciation in the positive degree, according to Mirza Khan,
it would represent the Hindi th, termed ^JLaj ^Jliy ^13 ta-i-fauqani-
'

i-saqilah, such as we pronounce in the word thai meaning a plate '.

If the same Arabic t be qualified with a comparative degree of hard-

ness, it would represent the Hindi t, termed by Mirza Stan ^"ly

Alii* ta-i-fauqani-i-musqilah, used in the word tifca meaning
'
^
mark '.

And so, if the Arabic t be given the superlative degree of hardness

of expression, it would represent the Hindi th, Jjtfl ^JlSy ^^
ta-i-fauqani-i-agqal, such as occurs in the word thag meaning 'a robber '.
Other peculiar sounds have also been specified in the same manner.
In spelling the Hindi words that occur in all chapters of the Tuhfat
care has been taken to reproduce the actual colloquial pronunciation
of those words by defining each letter according to the given system
of transliteration. Often variations in the colloquial pronunciation
are also given. For example, bairdfi is also colloquially pronounced
as bairdri and barari todkd is ordinarily todl, and hindoli is commonly
;

pronounced as hindol, etc.

Mirza Khan's treatment of his subjects is fairly scientific and
sufficiently comprehensive. Philologically, his vocabulary must be
of great interest to those who are concerned in the subject of verna-
cular linguistics. Hindi_an.d^Bhaklia are to him two interchangeable
terms^and he uses both to mean the same thing by them. Whereas
IrLsEa-AIIaE Kb an, a later writer, differentiates between the two
'
when he says about the language of his Hindi tale, Earn KetakI ',
that it would neither loose its quality of being Hindu! nor Bhakha-ness
 1
would creep into it. Hindu! here means the current Hindi or
Hindostanl and Bhakha the older form of the Hindi.
signifies
'
Mirza Khan says Bhakha particularly belongs to the Braj
:

country and its neighbourhood '. At another place, he includes

Gwaliar and Candwar, 2 etc. within the range of spoken Bhakha. In
his introduction to the Grammar he mentions the Doab of the Ganga
and Jamna as a country possessing an eloquent language. As in his
opinion only Bhakha is eloquent he means to say that the language
of the Doab is also Braj Bhakha.
In the chapter on music Mirza Iban mentions the following
dialects in connection with the songs sung in them Purabi, to which
:

the Barwai variety of songs is peculiar Rajputl, of which Kadi is a

;

speciality the dialect of Khairdbdd, in which Khayal is mostly sung

; ;

Gujrdii, in which the Muhammadans of Gujrat sing the JakrI variety

of music SMkhd, to which Bhog is peculiar
; and Punjabi which is
;

particularly fond of Tappa.

Bhakha being the chief literary language of those provinces and also
being the name for the current dialects, it was commonly considered *
the source of all other allied dialects. Mirza Ihan says excepting
:

Sanskrit and Prakrit, Bhakha comprehends the rest of the dialects '.
And in his opinion Prakrit is a production of Sanskrit and Bhakha.
To Mirza Khan Bhakha appeals as the most eloquent of all
languages. He thinks this language is most suitable for ornate poetry
as also for singing the praise of the lover and the beloved, and is
mostly spoken and used by poets and cultured people. This is cor-
'
roborated by Sir G. A. Grierson who writes The Hindi poetry, in
8 '
the Western Hindi language, is almost all in Braj Bhakha . . .

Bhakha prevailed far towards the west of Mathura and for many a
century had been the common literary language of the Western
Gangetic Valley and Rajputana, where it was designated as Pingal,
against the local vernaculars that were nicknamed Dingal.
Of all the chapters those on prosody and music are the most
elaborately done. The chapter on music includes a section on Persian
music, with a subsection on mixed Hindi and Persian modes ; Kagas
composed by Amir IQiusrau, Sulfcan Sarqi, and Makhdum Bahau-
d-Din, the inventor of Khayal. There is also a section in this
chapter on the technical terms used in Nrit, i.e., in dance.
The chapter on prosody begins with a detailed analysis of the
basic principles of Hindi prosody, manipulation of long and short
syllables, the mdtrds, etc. There are enumerated seventy-five varieties
of meters. He deals with each of these separately at length and
illustrates each of these with Persian verses composed by himself.

1
J.A.S.B., 1852, p. 1.
2
Candwar, Chandwar, Janwar is a district, 25 miles east of Agra on the
route from Mathura to Etawa, on the river Jamna, arid is mostly occupied by
Cauhan tribes. (Jarret's A'in-i Akbarl, II, p. 183.)
3 The Indian
Antiquary for January, 1903, p. 16.
 8

The Sanglt Chand is thus illustrated (fol. 98a) :

j;

(fol. 1016) :

Each illustration at the end of a descriptive note is scanned

according to the method adopted in Arabic and Persian prosody.
Next he gives seventy-one kinds of Chappay meters, hundred and
twenty-one kinds of Barn-parstar meters, eight Sanskrit meters,
and at the end he gives us fourteen more, which he claims to have
invented and introduced into Hindi literature. He says he never
heard of any of these meters and neither came across any of these
in any book. If any of these meters be incidentally found in a book,
then, he says, the case must be considered as one of simultaneous
invention.
I am not aware of any other earlier attempt at a grammar of
the Hindi or Hindostani language other than that of Mirza Khan's.
John Joshua Ketelaer wrote his grammar of the Hindostani in about
1715 A.D., which was published by David Millius in 1743 A.D. Lalluji
Lai of Agra (1803 A.D.) is mentioned by Sir G. A. Grierson as
the author of a grammar entitled Masadir-i-Bhakha. Mirza Shan's
Dictionary is again the first attempt at anything like a dictionary of
the Hindi language. The Dictionary of the Hindostani language
by Fraciscus M. Turonesis, referred to by J. C. Amadutinus, was
written in 1704 A.D., regarding which he says that it could be seen in
the Propaganda Library of Rome till 1761 A.D. Daya-Bam Tripathi
wrote a dictionary of Hindi in about 1741 A.D. 1
Mirza Stan's Dictionary of the Hindi language contains more
than three thousand words, all spelt according to the given system of
transliteration. Here is an example of a word spelt and explained
in ^ ^VA oUJ Lughat-i-Hindl (fol. 327a) ^f; j j :

i The Modern Vernacular Literature of Hmdostan,

pp. 101, 103. 75 and 76.
The Indian Antiquary for January, 1903, p. 19.
 9

***

^U ( rj*^* ^JL&^ Stya^xj ^b j 8^X^o

i

AAxfiA. Jb j tJjLc ^
-
jULo ^<3 lyT ^
" Brinddban : the to be pronounced) with the vowel
first letter (6
i and r (to be read) conjointly withit ; the nasalized n, and the soft
d moved with the vowel a the one dotted b to be pronounced with a ;
;

it is the name of that well-known forest and district in the midst of

which Mathura is situated, and where Kanh used to take his cows
for pasture it is commonly pronounced as Bindrdban"
;

It should be noted that in the dictionary, in the spelling of

words, the author always leaves out the final letter unspelt. In his
introduction he says that as in most of the Hindi words the last
letter is unmoved by any vowel he has left it as such. The other
reason for this omission being the vocabulary is divided according to
the initial and final letters, the initial letter forming the head of the
Bab and the final that of the FasL Thus there was in fact not so
much need of specially indicating the last letber in spelling the word.
But if any letter has a moveable final it is fully spelt.
The Hindi verses quoted by the author, are not all spelt. Rome
of these are composed by the author himself I give them below with ;

provisional transliteration of the same.

Example of Dipanniya-duwar (fol. 154) :

&} JJ
r
U~ ^/^ ^
Nain tuhari Siyam lal at rat! mat!.

Example of an Awant-alanlcdr (fol. 155) :

Dan pujari narak so darl baikunthan,

Kaun narak me ky5 pare jo karatu hai dan (fol. 157) :

JU * 3
^*( ^ Jl
Sej bioha de bala lal, rain bata de lala bal.

Some other verses are :

 10

Sk birah mb" tan dane", duje det bhay Anftg,

Tijal rain darawanl, oauthe kali na sag,

Nipath kathin at chin tan, adherl rain,

Kaniidtlr, anjSn man, kaise p&wS oain.

Jagat jagat nis sakhl, arun bha'I, drik lal,

Ear s5 karke kail ky5 nain nawawat bal.

Dadh sut bhak bairl bhayo.

This line alone is fully explained by the author.

Other than the Introductory chapter and the Terminating, which

have been mentioned above, the Tufyfatu-l-Hind contains seven
chapters :

1st. On Prosody.
2nd. On Rhyme.
3rd. On Poetics and Rhetoric.
4th. On Art of love in Literature.
5th. On Music.
6th. On Sexual Science.
7th. On the Science of Character Reading.
 Plate II

B.v courtesy of the Librarian of the India Office Library

Reduced Facsimile of fol. 5 b. MN. A.
 11

The scheme for transliterating Hindi or Braj sounds, that Mlrza

gfran has followed and explained in his Introduction to the Tufyfatu-
l-Hind, runs briefly as follows :

THE SCHEME OF TRANSLITERATION.

% a, * (hamza).
T, i, * (hamza-i-mulayyanah, when preceded by a, o.g. in cMU^
ma'il).
W, b, v (ba-i-muwalihadah).
'

*i P Y (pa-i-'ajaml-i-kbaflfah, e.g. in ;*J pidar, father ').

*T, c, * (jim-i-'ajaml i-fcbaflfah, e.g. in
'
caman, garden ^^ ').

^, d, A (dal-i-kijafifah).
' 8> u* (sin-i-muhmalah).
T S t^ (shin-i-mu' jamah).
JT, g,
d (kaf-i-'ajami i-tbafifah, e.g. in j*f gauhar,
*

jewel ').

^i 7 (S (ya-i-tahtani).
^, r, 1, m, n, w, when simple are left unspecified.
'

<zf, lh, AJ (lam-i-gaqllah, e.g. in *)K kftlh, yesterday ').

% mh, A^O (mlm-i-saqilah, e.g. in lf*^ Brammha).

V, nh, AJ (nun-i-Saqllah, e.g. in
J
u^ Kanhs, and
*.
**K Kanh).
f *
^r, u, ^ (waw-i-ma ruf, e.g. in nur ^', light ').
' J
*ft o, ^ (waw-i-majhul, e.g. in )j Sor, noise ).

^ (yS-i-ma'riif, e.g. in jw pfr, old man

'

t, i, *).

* J (ya-i-maj-hul, e.g. in ^ zer, 'under').

^IT, a, f (alif-i-mamdudah).
^
^j M) when it nasalises the preceding vowel; for example,
' ' ' ' c

cSd, ojl*., Moon ; bSd, J^., drop ; god, xi/

' ' ' '

bhaura, f;^, bee ; nld, aL, sleep ; peda,

' ' (

_ bottom ; kftwal, jf, lotus ', etc

L
^ B, ^ (nun-i-munawwanah, e.g. in gang ^fif).
H, bh, AJ (ba-i-muwahhadah-i-aaqllah, e.g. in bhar,
1
burden ').

^ ph *i (pa-i^ajaml i-gaqllah, e.g. in d^J phal,

'
fruit ').
'

ir, th, A3 (ta-i-fauqani-i-gaqllah, e.g. in JU3 thai, plate ').

'

v, t, *
(ta-i-fauqam-i-muqilah, e.g. in y/ top, hat ').
(

*, th, AT (ta-i-fauqani-i-agqal, e.g. in J^f thag, robber').

IT, fr, A^ (jim-i-tazi-i-saqilali, e.g. in ^+ jhak,
'
fish ').
 12

c
V, oh, &&. (jim-i-'ajami-i-gaqilah, e.g. in Jl^ chal, skin ').
'

^C, ooh, <V^ (jim-i-'ajaml-i-agqal, e.g. in *&* maoch, big fish ').

<*, dh, *> (dal-i-gaqllah, e.g. in dhan, ^t, 'wealth').

'
w, 4, *
(dal-i-mugqilah, e.g. in jS dar, fear ').
'
*, dh, 3
(dal-i-aqal, e.g. in JyfcS dhol, drum ').
(

*, r, ; (ra-i-muttaeilah, e.g. in o^j prit, love ').

v, kh, V
(kaf-i-gaqllah, e.g. in ;l/ khar, salt ').
'
(

49, kkh, a^ (kaf-i-tazi i-mugqilah, e.g. in *^> mukkh, face ').

'
*?
*> gh (kaf i-'ajaml i-gaqllah, e.g. in ghar, house '). ^, c

WT, ua, (waw-i-ma&mmnah, e.g. in ;Ty, duar, door ').

oa,
irr, ia, io, iu, (ya-i-maSmumah, e.g. in ^U^, Si^am).
t xO--

^H, a, e.g. in
I
, V
abla, a girl between ten and twenty '.
'

<T, a, T , e.g. in ^ abha,

'
'
reflection '.

*, i, 1 , e.g. in j*^i Indr, Indra '.

'
t, ^i , e.g. in ACjl ikh,
'.
i, sugar-cane
c
, u, e.g. in jlf^ ujyara, light '.
^,

, u, jl , e.g. in^AA/f tJdho.

^i ri,
^2 ,
ri.

, Iri, jj.y (This is the North Indian pronunciation of

, ; the
ancient value had no r element in it).
> isj-
'
e, ^1 , e.g. in *A eh, this '.
'

ai, ^1 , e.g. in oyt^f airabat, elephant '.

'
o, j"f , e.g. in )$ or, other side '.

* *
V, au, , e.g. in rf aur, and .
 13

ICONTENTS OF THE 'TUHFATU-L-HIND' BY MIRZA

KHAN IBN FAKHRU-D-DIN MUHAMMAD.
Foil. 16-26.
THE PREFACE.
The Preface consists of a eulogium addressed to Aurangzib and
his son, the prince A'zam Shah. In some MSS., it is his grandson,
the prince Jahandar Shah who is mentioned instead of A'zam Shah.
In such MSS. it is also definitely stated that the work was composed
by the request of Kukultash Khan, the foster-brother of the King
His titleKhan Jahan being not mentioned here with his name,
' '

(which he had received in 1086/1675) enables us to fix the date of

the work before 1675 A.D.

Foil. 26-48a.
THE INTRODUCTION.
The Introduction On
the Characters of the Hindi Alphabet the
:
;

orthography of Hindi letters, simple and compound, and some of

the grammatical rules of the Bhakha.

Chapter I.

The Hindi alphabet the vowels ; a system of transcribing

:

the peculiar Hindi sounds (letters) into the Arabic script.

Section (I).
The 18 sounds that are common to the Hindi, Arabic and
Persian alphabets.

Section (2).

The scheme for transliteration of Hindi letters into Arabic.

A. 17 peculiar Hindi sounds.
B. The transliteration of the peculiar Hindi sounds.

Chapter II.
The number and order of Hindi letters and their discrimination
from the 32 Arabic and Persian characters the orthography of
;

the simple and compound Hindi characters.

Section (1).
The number and order of the Hindi alphabet and their distinc-
tion from the 32 Arabic and Persian characters.
A. The number and order of the alphabet.
(a) The number of letters in the Hindi alphabet (35).
(b) The order of letters in the Hindi alphabet.
B. The distinction of the Hindi characters from the 32
Arabic characters.
 14

Section (2).
The orthography of the simple and compound Hindi
characters.
A. The orthography of 35 simple Hindi letters explained.
B. The orthography of the compound Hindi characters
explained.

The vowel marks (mats), Saman, and the rules of the grammar
concerning them.
(a) Combination of the two similar vowels (5).
(6) Combination of dissimilar vowels (4) Sandachhar (san~ ;

dhyalcsara) ; Bitarg (vwarga) ; Binjan (vyanjand) ;

Anundsik (anundsika) ; Lagh (laghu), Diragh (dirgha),
and PuLit (pluta) m&trfo.
Ohapter IV.
The vowel marks, their kinds and orthography with consonants ;

the principal grammatical laws of the Bhdkhd.

Section (1).
The vowels used with consonants ; their kinds and ortho-
graphy explained.
A. The vowel marks accompanying consonants ; P&d t

Kewal> Ardh-cand, Bindl, Bisarg, Kannft, Ghu&di,

Badankur, Mat, Reph, Ark, BinJan.
B. The 16 forms of the vowel marks, their orthography
explained.
Section (2).
The grammatical laws of the BMkh&.
A. On the language of the Braj country ; Sah&skirt,
Pardkirt, Bhdkha.
B, The 4 kinds of Sabd.
(a) The definition of Sabd and its kinds.
(6) Sa&padan (the substantive); Birt (the particle),
oyw harf .

(c) Kartab ; Shut (past), Bartmdn (present), Bhavikkh

(future tense), Kirya (past participle tenses), Kirt
f

(used as object), Jy^> maf ul.

1. The definition of Kartab.
2. Bhut, 3. Bartmdn, 4. Bhaviklch, 5. Kiryd (Sambhav,
Bhdv, An-bMv, Asambhfo), 6. Kirt.
(d) Kartti (the subject), 8u**adhw,
0. Pwr-ttng (the masc. gend.).
D. Astri-ling (the fern* gend,).
 Plate III

Hy courier of Ihe Librarian of the India Office

Library
Reduced Facsimile of fol. I7a. Ms. A.
 15

E. Nipunaak-li&g (the neuter gend.).

F. Buh-bacan (the plur. number).
G. Pronouns (7).
H. Pad-birt (the sentence).
I. Sambandh (the genitive case).
J. Particles and syllables that occurring in the middle,
in the beginning and at the end of nouns give
different meanings.
(a) Particlesthat, occurring in the beginning in the
middle and at the end of nouns, give different
meanings .

1. Prefixes.
2. Suffixes.

(6) Particles that, occurring in the beginning and at the

end of nouns, give different meanings.
1. Prefixes.
2. Suffixes.
 16

Foil. 48o-l 30a.

BOOK I.

ON PROSODY.
Chapter I.
The Basic Principles of Prosody, u^
Section (I).

The Invention of Prosody Lagh ; (short) and Our (long) sylla-

bles, their varieties.
A. The invention of Plgal (pingala).
B. The Lagh and Our.
(a) The short syllables (3).
(b) The long syllables (10) ;
the Tulc.

C. The varieties of long and short syllables.

(a) The varieties of short syllables Sur, Mer, Dand,:

Kdhal, Rab, Gandh, Ras, Sadd, Lahu, Rakh, Kardl,

Rua, Phull, Slh, Acal, Reh, Kal, Kusum.
(b) The varieties of long syllables Neur, Keur, RasnG,
:

Bharan, Chdmar, Phan, Baklc.Mdnus, Bar, Tdlanlc,

Kundal, Baliya, Rayan, Bdmar, TaL Mayan,
Kangan, Dhun, Githh, Akus.
Section (2).

The number of feet and the method of their schemes their ;

forms and varieties.

A. The number and the method of deriving the Mdtrd-
parstdr meters.
(a) The number of gans (feet) of the Mdtrd-parsidr meters.
(30 kinds explained).
(b) The method of deriving the gan of the Mdtrd-parstdr
meters, illustrated with diagrams.
B. The method of deriving the gan of the Barn-parstdr
meters.

(a) The number of gam of the Barn-parstdr meters (14).

(b) The method of deriving gans of the Barn-parstdr
meters.
Section (3).

Kinds of the Mdtrd-parstdr gans.

A. 2 kinds of the ]st type jy ^***.

B. 3 kinds of the 2nd type.
C. 5 kinds of the 3rd type.
D. 8 kinds of the 4th type.
E. 13 kinds of the 5th type.
 17

Section (4).
The Oan and Agan.
A. The Oan and Agan.
(a) The Oan.
(b) The Agan.

B. The method of deriving the 8 kinds of gan and agan

and their respective devtds.
(a) The method of finding the 8 gans.
(b) The deities of the 8 gans.

C. The relation of the feet with each other.

D. Omens of the 8 gans.
(a) The influence of the 8 feet.
(6) The good and bad omens of the feet.

Chapter II.
The Nasth, Udisth, Her, Patdka.
Section (1).
The Nasth.
A. Mdtra Nasth.
B. Barn Nasth.
Section (2).
The Mdtrd Udisth and Bam Udisth.
A. Mdtra Udisth.
B. Barn Udisth.

Section (3).
The M er, Mdtrd-mer, and Bam-mer.
A. The Mdtrd-mer.
B. The Bam-mer.
Section (4).
The Patdka.
A. Mdtrd-patdkd.
B. Barn-patdkd.

Chapter III.
Some of the terms of the art ; kinds of meters and the laws
concerning them.
Section (1).
Some of the terms and rules concerning the art.
A. The terms chand, tub, caran, jamak, b&tat, bisrdm, pind
: .

B. The rules of scansion.

2
 IS

Section (2).
Kinds of the Mdtrd-parstar and Barn-parstdr meters and
the laws concerning them.
A. Kinds of the Mdtrd-parstdr and Barn-parstdr meters.
(a) The number of the Mdtrd-parstdr and Bam-parstdr
meters (84 varieties).
(b) Kinds of the Mdtrd -parstar meters (75 meters
explained and illustrated with Persian verses,
composed by the author and at the end scanned
according to the method adapted in Arabic and
Persi an prosody ) .71 kinds of the Chappay meter.

B. Kinds of the Barn-parstdr meters (a) Dandak, Nibdhd,

:

Angan, etc. (121 varieties enumerated).

(b) The Barn-parstdr meters used in Sanskrit (8).

Section (3).
Meters invented by the author, 14 main meters with their
varieties.
 19

Foil. 130o~1446.
BOOK II.

ON RHYME.
Chapter I.

The Definition of Tuk (rhyme), M*

Section (1).

The Tuk.
Section (2).

32 syllables of Tuk, Nek, etc.

Chapter 11.
Tuk-mat &?& oli- ^ oli^.
y

Section (1).

Tuk-mdt (30 varieties explained).

Section (2).

Tuk-jdt (1 kinds explained),

Section (3).

Tuk-dokh (defects of rhyme, 3 sorts explained).

Section (4).

Tukat (rhyming syllable), *-ftj^;.

A. Tul&t, V-.LX.
B. Tukdd.

C. Tuk-misrak (the mixed rhyme),

D. Tuk-khand,
 20

Foil. 1446-1636.
BOOK III.

ON RHETORICS.

Chapter I.

On Eloquence and Rhetorics.

Section (I).
'
Nau-ras (nava-rasas), Nine Sentiments '.

Section (2).

Sing (fine expressions), UpmG.

<*

A. J&'wgr (vya%a
B. Upm& (upama),
Section (3).

Kinds of Alankar.
A. On the varieties of ^tewMr (17 kinds explained).
B. New Alankaras conceived by the author (4).
(a) Sarb-paltd.
(b) Biral-pdltd.

Chapter II.
On Dokhan (dosas),
'
defects ', 20 defects are explained.
 21

Foil. 1636-1776.
BOOK IV.

ON LOVE AND LOVERS.

Singdr-Ras (Srngdra Rasa}.
Chapter 1.

The Definition of Singdr-Ras and the kinds of Nd'ikds.

Section (1).
Nine kinds of Singdr-Rasas explained.

Section (2).
' '
Nd'ikd (ndyikd), The heroin (3).
A. Sukiyd (svafaya), Ayouo, 3 kinds are explained.
(a) Mugdhd (mugdkd), J&, 3 kinds.
(6) Madhhiyd (madhyd), Ja^Lo, 2 kinds.
(c) Pargalbkd (pragalbhd), o?-"^ (^Li, 2 kinds.
B. Parkiya (parakiyd), AnU, 3 kinds.
(a) Gupta, Bar-tikhhmdn-surt, Birt-surt, Birtbartikhhmdn.
(b) Udhd, Bidagdhd (udftd, vidagdhd), Bdk-bidagdM (vdg-
vidagdhd), Kriyd (kriyd).
(c) Lachhitd (lafyitd).
(d) Kulitd (kulatd).
(e) Ansaydnd, 3 kinds.
(/) Muditd (muditd).

C. Sdmdnniyd (sdmdnyd), 3 kinds.

(a) Ansanbhog-dukhitd (asambhoga-dufykhitd).

(b) Bakrokt-garbhatd (vakrokti-garvitd), Prem-garbhala,
(Prema-garvitd), Rup-garbhatd (Rupa-garvita),
Manwatl (ManavoM}.
Section (3).
'

Ndyakas, heroes '.

A. Sdtuwik-bhdv (sdttvika bhdva) of 8 kinds.
B. Sanjog hdv (samyoga hdva) JU0j of 15 kinds.
C. Biyog (viyoga) $j of 10 kinds.
D. Darsan (darsana) ;'^^ of 4 kinds.
(a) Sdchhdd darsan (saksdd-darfana).
(b) Srauwn darsan (sravawdarfana).
(c) Sapun darsan (svapna-darana).
(d) Cittr darsan (citra-dars'ana).
'
E. D&ti, the go-between '.
 22

Chapter II.
The kinds of Nffik (nayaka).
(a) Pott (pati).
I. Ankul (anukula) .

2. Dacchan (dakaina).
3. Dharist (dhrstaY
4. Sath (Mho,)'.'

(6) Upapcti (upapati),

(c) Baisik (vaisika).
(d) Narm-saciw (narma-8ac.iv<i),
1. Pith-mard (pUhamarda), Bit (vita,), Cetak (cetaka),
Bidukftak (vidysaka ) .

2. Aribhig (anabhijna).
3. Nd'iJcdbhas (nayakdbhvsa),
 23

Foil. 1776-2520.
BOOK V.

ON Music.
Chapter I.
The Definition of Music the invention of Music ; the different
;

Schools of Music ; Sapat-addhiyd Sur ; Surt ; Murchand.

Section (1).

The Definition of Music the inventor of it

;
the various ;

Schools ; Sapat-addhiya.
A. The Definition of Music ; the inventor of it ; the
various Schools of Music.

Sangit, Sumeshur, etc. (4).

The following works are mentioned to have been

consulted in preparing this book on Music :

Rdgdrnava, Sanglt-darpan, Mdn-akutuhal (Mdna-kv,-

utuhala), Rdg-darpan, Sabhd-binod fyj^'j -

B. Sapat-addhiya (sapta adhydya).

1. Sur-addhiyd (sura ).
2. Rdg-addhiyd (rdga).
3. Tdl-addhiyd (tdla).
4. Nirt-addhiyd (nrtya ).
5. Arth-addhiyd (artha ?).
6. Bhdv-addhiyd (bhdva ).
7. Hast-addhiyd (haata ).
Only the first three are described.

Section (2).

Sur, seven surs J^T arc described.

Section (3).

The pitch and quality of notes.

Section (4).

Girdm (grama), 3 kinds described.

Section (5).

Utpan (utpanna, utpatti), sources of the seven initial notes.

Section (6).

Asihdn (sthdna), of 3 kinds.

 24

Section (7).
Surt (truti), of 22 kinds.
Section (8).
Murchand (murchand), of 21 kinds.

Section (9).

Rag-jot (rdga-jdti), of 3 kinds.

Sanpuran (sampurna).
Khddaw (khddava).
Audaw (ddava).
Suddh (suddha}.
Sdlank (sdlanka).
Sankwan (sankirna).

Chapter II.
Kinds of Musicians, their virtues a.nd defects.

Section (1).

Types of Off in (gdyana), musicians, 5 kinds of them

are explained.

Section (2).
Virtues of the musicians.
A. 14 kinds, according to the varieties of the voice.
B. 16 kinds of artists that acquire skiU in Music without
the virtues of the voice.
Section (3).
Seven defects of musicians.
A. Defects with regard to the voice (7).
B. Defects with regard to the art (6).

Section (4).
s
Brind (vrnda), chorus ', of 3 kinds.

Section (5).
The kinds of Composers and their Compositions.
A. The kinds of Composers.
B. The kinds of Compositions.
(a) Gfit, Manh, Cind, etc.
(6) Dhurpad, Khaydl (sung in Khairahad), Tappd (Pan-

jabl), Barwai (Purabi), JJ Qaul, Tilldnd (tardna

AJty), etc.
(c) 8 letters and 4 feet that are considered ominous in
a song.
 25

Section (6).
The names and the number of the originators of the art
of Music.
A. The Deities.
B. The later Masters of the art.
(a) The Musicians.
1. The Specialists in the branches of Music.
2. 11 later masters in Music, Gopal, etc. (11).
(b) 18 famous musicians, Tanson, etc. (18).

Chapter III.
Rag (rdga), JRdgnl (rdgini), Puttr (putra), Bkdrjd (bhdryd) ;

Season, Time, Dress, Manners ; Forms of Rdgas and Rdginls.

Section (1).
The Definition of Rag f\su>
and Rdgnl *y^ Puttr and Bhdrjd,
a

etc.
A. The Definition of Rag and Rdgni, Bhdrjd and Puttr.
B. The Preliminaries of the art.
(a) 3 Kriyds.
'

(b) Khat-rut (sad-rtu), 6 seasons \

Section (2).
6 Ragas according to Hanuman mat.
A. Bhairo Rag.
B. Mdlkos.
C. Hindol.
D. Dlpak.
E. Sri Rag.
F. Megh Rag.
Section (3).

Raginis (6).
A. 5 Rdgnis of the Bhairo Rag.
B. 5 Rdgnis of the Mdlkos Rag.
C. 5 Rdgnis of the Hindol Hag.
D. 5 Rdgnis of the Dlpak Rag.
E. 5 Rdgnis of the Sri Rag.
F. 5 Rdgnia of the Megh Rag.
Section (4).
Putras (6).
A. 8 Putras of the Bhairf> Rag.
B. 8 Putras of the MdlJcos Rag.
C. 8 Putras of the Hindol Rag.
D. 8 Putras of the Z>*j>afc .ftagr.
E. 8 Putras of the Sri Rag.
F. 8 Pttfra* of the Megh Rag.
 26

Chapter IV.
Ragas and Raginis according to Kallindth mat.
Section (1).

According to Kallindth mat the 6 Ragas have 6 Rdginls to

each of them.

Section (2).

Raginis of the 6 Ragas.

A. 6 Rdgnis of the Sri Rag
B. 6 Rdgnis of the Basani Rag.
C. 6 Rdgnis of the Pancam Rag.
D. 6 Rdgnis of the Bhairo Rag.
E. 6 Rdgnis of the Megh Rag
F. 6 Rdgnis of the Nat-Nardi?i Rag.

Chapter V.
Ragas and Raginis according to Sumesur mat.
Section (I).

Rdgas.

Section (2).

Rdgnis.
A. Rdgnis of the Sri Rag.
B. Rdgnis of the Basant Rag.
C. Rdgnis of the Bhairo Rag.
D. Rdgnis of the Pancam Rag.
E. Rdgnis of the Jfe^>, jftogr.
F. Rdgnis of the Nat-Nardin Rag.

Section (3).
Puttras of the 6 IZapas.

Section (4).

TheJtat (rto*).
A. Music and the seasons connected with it.
B. Music and the parts of the day and night connected
with it.
Chapter VI.
Rdgas emdEdgms, Puttras and Bhdrjds according to Bharat mat.
Section (1).
The 6 Rdgas.
 27

Section (2).

A. 5 Rdgnls of the Bhairfi Rag.

B. 5 Rdgnis of the Mdlkos Mag.
C. 5 .Kagrm* of the Hindol Rag.
D. 5 Rdgnis of the Dipnk Rag.
E. 5 Rdgnis of the r* #ag.
F. 5 Rdgnis of the Jfegrfc
Section (3).

Puttras and Bhdrjds.

A. Puttras and Bhdrjds of Bhairo Rag.
(a) 8 Puttras of the JHbrir
(6) Bhdrjds of the 8 Puttras.

B. Puttras and Bhdrjds of Mdllcos Rag.

(a) 8 Puttras of the Mallcds Rag.
(6) 8 Bhdrjds of the Mdlkos Rag.

C. Puttras and Bhdrjds of Hindol Rdg.

(a) 8 Puttras of Hindol Rdg.
(6) 8 Bhdrjds of Hindol Rdg.

D. Puttras and Bhdrjds of Dlpak Rdg.

(a) 8 Puttras of >^a* /?agr.
(6) 8 Bhdrjds

E. Puttras and Bhdrjds of

(a) 8 Puttras
(6) 8 Bhdrjds of Sri

F. Puttras and Bhdrjds of

(a) 8 Puttras of J^egr^
(6) Bhdrjds of

F/7.
The composition of Ragas and BaginiR and their Putras
according to the main 7 notes.

Chapter VIII.
The Ragas composed by later masters, such as Amir Khusrau;

Sulfcan Husain Sharqi, the king of Jaunpur ; Mafebdum Bahau-d-

Din of Multan and others.

(1).
12 Aa^as composed by Amir Kiiusrau.
 28

Section (2).
17 Ragas composed by Sulfcan Husain Sharqi and others.
A. 17 Bagas (maqamat c^UlAx>) composed by Sultan
Husain Sharqi.
B. Ragas composed by Makbdum Bahau-d-Dm of Multan .

Chapter IX.
On Persian Music.
Section (1).
12 Persian Ragas (maqamat

Section, (2).
Persian Rdgnls (Su'ba <u*,).

Section (3).

The 6 notes (saa awaza j!jT

Section (4).
48 Gua& of Persian Music
Section (5).
Indian and Persian mixed Modes.
Section (6).
17 main Tolas (chime) of Persian MUHIC.

Chapter X.
The Tal-addhiya.
Section (1).
A. The Delmition of Tdl.
B. The Mdtrds of Tal.
C. The Tdl Karn JU v^- f .

D. Some Technical Terms of I>ance, N irl-addhiyd.

(a) Terms used in Nirt-addhiyd.
(b) Kinds of Instruments used in Dance.
Section (2).

92 kinds of Tal explained.

 29

Foil. 252o-280a.
BOOK VI.
'
THE SCIENCE or SEXUAL ENJOYMENT."
Chapter I.

The four kinds of woman.

Section (1).

The Padmanl (padmini).

Section (2).

The Cittarni, (citrinl).

Section (3).

The Sankhm (sankhml).

Section (4).

The Hastam (hastinl).

Section, (5).

The Female Sexual Organ.

Chapter II.
The four kinds of Purkh (purusa),
k

the male '.

Section (1).

The 8aad Purkh (sosa purusa).

Section (2).

The Mirgd Purkh (rnrga ).

Section (3).
The Birkhab Purkh (vrsa* or vr$abha)
Section (4).
The Turang Purkh (turanga ).

Section (5).
The Male Sexual Organ.
Section (6).
'
The five kinds of Rat (rati), sexual intercourse '.

Chapter III.
f '
The Khat Bais (sad-vayas), six ages of maturity in woman
Section (1).
The six ages of maturity.
 30

Section (2).

Symptoms of sexual excitement in woman.

A. Symptoms of sexual excitement.
B. Natural times of sexual excitement.

Section (3).
The sexual dissatisfaction of woman and its causes.
A. The causes of dissatisfaction.
B. The causes of the misconduct of woman.

Section (4).
'
The kinds of Dtiti, the go-between ', aJJte.

A. Some kinds of Dutls described.

B. The art of the Dutl.
Section (5).
The Love-tryst.
A. The Sanket (sanketa), sl?*^.
B. The decoration of Sej, the bed '. '

C. The dress of the lover.

D. The Abhran (dbharana), ornaments '
of the woman %
(12).

Chapter IV.
Etiquettes to be observed on the occasion of union.
Section (1).

Etiquettes to be observed in union.

Section (2).
The embracing, kissing, etc.
'
A. Alangan (dtingana), embracing ',
\j&J> c^j*' )*
B. Cumman '

(cumbana), kissing ', *~^>. ' ' '

C. Khandan (kkandana), rubbing and scratching ',

D. Nakhdan (nakhaddna), 'pinching with nails of the

fingers ', ^j ^LJ .

Section (2).
The limbs of woman and the relation of the secretion of her
ovaries to every date of the month.
A. The date of the month and the sexual position of the
limbs of the woman.
B. Kinds of women and their sexual affinities to the
parts of night.
 31

G. Kinds of women and their respective modes of gett-

ing satisfaction.
D. The male organ.
Section (4).
Kinds of A sans,' positions '.

A. 36 positions of sexual intercourse described.

B. The relation of Asans to different kinds of women.
'
C. Kinds of Rat (rati), coition '.

Chapter V.
The tonic and invigorating medicines.
Section (1).
A. The simple tonic Indian medicines.
B. The simple invigorating medicines.
Section (2).
The compound tonic medicines.
The treatment of Gonorrhoea.
 32

Foil. 280o-398a.
BOOK VII.

Samuddrik (Samudrika).

*THE SCIENCE OF READING CHARACTERS BY THE PECULIAR

FORMATION OF THE LIMBS AND MARKS.'

Chapter 1.
Characters of Men.

Section (1).
'
32 Lachhan (laksana), characters ', facial.

A. 32 characters explained.
B. 32 characters discernible in the formation of human
limbs.

Section (2).

The good and bad formation of limbs with regard to its

effect on life.

A. Character lines with regard to their good and bad

effects.
B. The Rekh (rekhd) the character lines of palms and soles.
,

C. Characters in the structure of the body.

Chapter IL
Character lines in woman.
 Plate IV

2^-i

cour\cny of the Librarian of the India Office Library

Reduced Facnimilc of fol. 371 b. M, A.
 33

Poll. 398o-4316.
THE APPENDIX.
HINDI TO PERSIAN DICTIONARY.

The Dictionary contains more than three thousand words, all

of which arespelt according to the scheme of transliteration given
in the Introductory Chapter of the work, and explained in Persian.
 34

ON THE GRAMMATICAL LAWS OF THE

BRAJ BHAKHA.
Fol. 296.
SECTION II.

ON THE GRAMMATICAL LAWS OF THE Bhdkhd.

This Section is divided into ten Sub -sections.

STTB -SECTION I.

1
Regarding the Position of the Language.
be understood that the people of India have a number
It should
of languages, but those, in which (fol. 30a) books and poetical works
may be composed such as would be agreeable to those who possess
a refined disposition and straight understanding are three (in
number) :

First, Sahaskirt (^5^ftm=^3RT). Books on various sciences and

arts are mostly composed in this* language. They (i.e. the Hindus)
believe it is the language of the transcendental world and call it the
Alcds-bdnl ( ^KTO^fTsft" ) and also Dev-bdm ( ^r*rr^t ), that is, the
language of those who dwell in the heaven, and of the devtas who
are the celestial beings.
Second, Pardkirt ( wforw=srTiirr ). This language is mostly em-
ployed in the praise of kings, ministers, and chiefs, and belongs to the
under -world, that is, the world that is below this world they call it ;

Pdtdl-bdm Midi^^l^t ), and also Ndg-bdnl ( rur^i^t ), that is, the

(

language of the lowest of the low, and of reptiles of mean origin,

who live under-ground. This language is composed of Sahaskirt,
mentioned above, and Bhdkha to be mentioned next.
z
Third, Bhdkhd (wmi). Ornate poetry and the praise of the
lover and the beloved is mostly composed in this language. This
is tho language of the world in which we live. Its application (i.e.
of the Bhdkha as a language,) is generally inclusive of all other
languages, excepting Sahaskirt and Pardkirt'*. It is particularly the

"*
'
the how and wherefore Btato '
of the language, tho nature
and manner of it.
2 -Z?/Mjfcfed=Sanskrit
Bhdsd, lit., 'speech', 'language' or 'dialect', by usage
means the Braj Bhakha, a dialect of the Western Hindi. Tho author often
calls it Hindi too.
In his dictionary, ol*J Lughat-i-Hindl (fol. 333a), ' '

<^XA ' '

he gives the meaning of the word, viz. "Bhakh '

means, speech or to apeak ;

' ' '

'
and also, the imperative say '.
3 The text is :
c^-Jt
It is obvious that by Jami'-i-zabanha, 'all languages ',
 35

language of the Birj people. Birj is the name of a country in India,

(eighty) four kos round, with its centre at Mathura, which is a quite
well-known district 1 .

The language of the Birj people is the most eloquent of all

languages. All that lies between the two well-known rivers, Gangd
and Jamrtd, as for example Cddwar, also pronounced as Candwar, is
also alluded to as eloquent. C&dwar is the name of a well-known
district.
Since this language contains poetry full of colour and sweet
expressions and of the praise of the lover and the beloved, and is
much in vogue among poets and people of culture, for that reason its
grammatical laws are here formulated. The author of this (Grammar)
is this humble person 2 .

SUB-SECTION II.

l
Sabd (Sabda), Parts of Speech '.

This (Sub-section) is divided into four parts.

A. The definition of &aJbd (fol. 31a) and its kinds.
should be understood that Habd in Sahaskirt means a part
Lt
of speech, kalimah? The Bhakttd people pronounce it with s. In
the terminology of our grammarians, a part of speech is that which
when uttered carries sense with it. According to Indians it is of
three kinds :

'

(1) Sanpddan, Substantive '. '

(2) Kartab (Jcartavya), The Verb '.

'

(3) Karta (kartd), The Nominative '.

the author r-ofers to till the dialects of the Hindi, (if which, Brai fihdkhd, according
to him, is the mam source. The statement IN a repetition oi the very common
opinion which up to very rocciit times vuis almost miammouHly hold with regard
to the source and basis of the Hmdostam or Urdu Language.
1 On fol. 19.r ' '
G\valiar to the territories in which Bhakha
fr, the authoi adds
'
is spoken. The word haStad ^(A^A, i.o eighty ", is a later insertion in the
' *

India Off. MS. It does not occur m

the Asiatic Nociuty of Bengal's MS. nor
in the Or. pub. lib/s. In the Lughat-i -Hindi the author gives the measure-
..... one farsakh ( = 3J miles) and accord-
'

ment in different terms, he says :

'

ing to an opinion, three farsakhs Hurroundmg (Mathura) is called Birj .....

According to the popular Hindi topography, Muthura forms a circuit of 84 kos.
2

Kalima, lit., u word with a meaning

' ' '
3 a word ', may be
lafss, (while
without a meaning), and grammatically moans a part of speech '. The author
'

follows the Persian Grammar as basis for treatment, though riot very strictly.
According to the Arab and Persian Grammarians, there are three kinds of parts
of speech: (1)
(^i) isw., 'the noun ', which includes substantives, adjectives, ' '
numerals, pronouns, and particles (2) ( J^j) ./?', the verb
; and (3) (*-_&,.) harf, ;
'
the particle ', which includes the remaining parts oi speech, viz. adverbs,
prepositions, conjunctions, und interjections.
 36

1 2
B. It should be known that Sanpddan, in their terminology,
means that part of speech which not related to any of the three is

tenses, which are past, present, and future.

:

Sanpddan is of two kinds :

(1) That which does not depend upon another word in

carrying its sense, e.g. Earn, the name of one of their
'

well-known devtds* jal, meaning 'water', etc. Such ;

parts of speech are called Sanpddan, and are known

in Arabic terminology as ism (~-t) (i.e. Substantives,
etc.).
(2) That which depends upon another word in carrying its
' ' '

sense, e.g. par (^ ), meaning at and upon '. Such

o
parts of speech are termed ^ Birt 8 (fol. 316), and are
known in Arabic terminology as fyarf (*Jj^) (i.e. Par-
ticles, etc.).

(
C. Kartab (kartavya), The Verb '. It is divided into six parts.

I. The definition of Kartab and its kinds.

It should be known that Kartab, in their terminology,

*
verb means the performing of an
'

signifies a verb, and

action. It is a part of speech which is related to one of
the tenses the past, the present, and the future. These
three tenses are called, in their terminology, J^y Tir-kdl
(trikala). It is of five kinds :

'
1. Shut (bhuta), The Past '.
'
2. Bartmdn (vartamdna), The Present '.
'
3. Bhavikkh (bhavisya), The Future '.
Kirya (kriyd), The Perfect Participle
*
4. '.
'
5. Kirt (krta), The Object '.
'
II. Bhut, The Past Tense '.

It should be understood that in their terminology Bhut

means the past tense. It is a tense which refers to the time
past. Their intransitive past has four inflections. The Intran-
sitive verb (fol. 32a) is that in which the action of the verb

1
By definition the word Sanpddan corresponds with the Persian term
Eor noun, viz. for which the Hindi term is sanjna, ^^31 I cannot
^\ ,
( )

Identify the word sanpddan (^TTT^if).

2 That is, in the Indian
terminology ; this third person, implying the
Indians or Hindus, occurs very often and I have retained it as such in my
translation.
3 I have not been able to be a corruption
identify thia word. It may
of vrtti* function '.
 37

concludes with the subject and does not proceed towards an

object.
1. Ayo* it is common to the sing. masc. 3rd and 2nd
_ persons ; and sing. masc. 1st person.
2. A'e, it is common to the dual and plural, masc. 3rd,
2
2nd, and 1st persons, along with others.
3. A' I, it is common to the sing. fern. 3rd, 2nd, and
_ sing. fern. 1st persons.
4. -4*1, it is fern, and common to the dual and plural,
3rd, 2nd, and 1st persons, along with others.
The transitive past has also the same four inflections. The
transitive verb is that in which the verb does not conclude
its action with the subject but proceeds towards an object.
However, the inflections of this verb undergo a change in
accordance with the change in their object, that is, if the
object is masc., the verb is rendered masc., and if (the object
be) fern, (the verb) is made fern. (too). For example, if the
obj. is sing, masc., they would say Mdriyo, and if it be sing. :

fern. (fol. 326) they would say Man, and so on in other cases.
:

' J
III. Bartmdn, The Present Tense .
It should be known that Bartmdn, in their terminology,
denotes the present tense. The present is that which is
midway between the past and the future. Their present tense
has four variations of inflection :

1. Karat hai, it is common to the sing. masc. and

fern. 3rd and 2nd persons.
2. Karat hat, it is common to the masc. fern., dual
and plural, 2nd and 1st persons, along with
others.
3. Karat ho, it is common to the dual and plural,
masc. L fern. 2nd person.
4. Karat hn, it is sing. masc. 1st person.
In each of the four inflections mentioned above, if (the
final) t in karat be moved with the vowel u, it would be
changed into masc., and if it be moved with i, it would be-
come fern.

Ayo is
->'j
spelt in the text as thus :
i-e. Ay&.
J>
fj~**
'
} *J>jiX*/o ^^ ^
Final a in Hindi is characteristically replaced by au
in Bray, while it changes to o in KanaujI which is very similar to Bray. All the
conjugational forms as spelt by Mirza Khan are neither pure nor exclusively
KanaujI. They are, however, more like Kanauji than pure Bray. In fact they
are colloquial and not literary forms of the tenses of the dialect.
2 '

J^^ f ma< aZ-g&atr, lit., along with others ', is the usual phrase that
Muslim Grammarians use, implying the plural number of the person mentioned.
 38

'
IV. Bhavikkh, The Future Tense '.
It should be understood that Bkavikkh, in their termino-
logy, means the future tense. The future tense is that which
is related to the time to come. Their future tense (fol. 33a)
has eight inflections :

1. Karai go, it is sing. masc. and common to the 3rd

and 2nd persons.
2. Karai ge, it is common to the dual and plural, 3rd,
masc. and 1st person, along with others.
3. Karau ge, it is masc. 2nd, and common to the dual
and plural numbers.
4. KarU go, it is sing. masc. 1st person.
5. KarU gi, it is sing. fern. 1st person.
6. Karai gi (fol. 336) it is sing, fern., and common to
the 2nd and 3rd persons.
7. Karai gi, it is fern, and common to the dual, and
3rd and 1st persons, along with others.
plural,
8. Karau gi, it is fern. 2nd, and common to the dual
and plural numbers.
V. Kirya.
It should be known that Kirya l is of four kinds :

1. Sambhdv (sambhdva=sambhava), it is affirmative

past, e.g. Ayo, etc.
2. Asambhav (asambhava), it is negative past, e.g. Nay5,
etc.
3. Ehav (bhdva), it is affirmative present and future, e.g.
Karat hai, and Karai go, etc.
4. An-bhdv (a-bhava) (fol. 34a), it is negative present
and future.

For negation and non-affirmation they add na or nd to

the beginning of a word.
'
VI. Kirt (ftw) The Object '.
It should be understood that Kirt, 2 in their terminology,
signifies the object. The object is that which bears the action
(of the verb).
8
They add A to the termination of the object, e.g. Hanyau
Ram Ravanaha *, that is, Ram struck Rdvan '. (

Sometimes the object is placed before its subject, e.g.

Hanyau Rdvanaha Ram.
' '
i or
'
KiryS, according to the examples given stands for perfect participle
indefinite perfect '.
* 8k. lit. means
'
done
Krta, '.

a This -h=ha is the common Old Hindi affix of the oblique case, derived
from Apabhram&a.
4 The sentence is not spelt in the text.
 39

Sometimes the pronominal affix for the object is dropped,

e.g. Hanyau Ram Rdvan. In such cases it is preferable that
the subject should precede its object, else they guess the sense
by what it is likely to mean.
c
D. Karta, The Subject '.

It should be understood that in their terminology, Kartd means

the subject. The subject is one that performs an action. It is of
two kinds :

SaTddhin 1 (avadhina),
'

(1) the Independent '.

'

(2) Paradhm, the Dependent '.

8awadhln (fol. means the subject that

346), in their terminology,
'
does its Kdji, i.e. the doer of an action '.
action by itself, e.g.
Parddhln is a subject that orders an action to be done by another
person, either affirmatively or prohibitively; just as we have (in
Persian), the affirmative and prohibitive imperative moods. In the
affirmative, one is ordered to act and in the prohibitive one is ordered
against acting.
Their 2nd person imperative is of three kinds :

(1) Karu* it is 2nd sing. masc. imperative.

(2) Kari, it is 2nd sing. fern, imperative.
(3) Karahu, it is common to the masc. fern., dual, and 2nd
person plural.
Their 3rd person imperative is also of three kinds :

(1) Kami, it is 3rd sing, imperative and common to the fern,

and masc. genders.
(2) Karat, it is 3rd imperative common to the masc. and fern.,
dual and plural, 1st person, along with others.
(3) KarU, it is sing. 3rd and 1st persons imperative.

prohibitive imperative moods, for the 2nd and 3rd persons

The
36a), are also the same as those six of the 3rd and 2nd imperative,
r

,
fol.

only na or nd is prefixed to the verb (in each case). These need not
be detailed here.

is spelt thus :
Jf * ^ A^l* ^ L Sdj** ii^-c trt J&
**&** LS^ J )?**'* *^
Here fa* fi* letter * should have been
moved by u and not by a as the text has. For no w sound is produced when
the first letter is moved by a and the next is preceded by a. Regarding this
' '
smelt u> or y the rule given on fol. 60 is : when u precedes an a or an inert y,
' '
t

then, indeed, in the pronunciation of the letter preceding an o or an inert y, a

bit of the letter w is pronounced, as in the word du'ar meaning door and in
* '

'
the word suwid, meaning sweat '.
2 As
A+* gamma represents both u and o, and Kasra both i and e,
I have always written u for Zamrna and i for Kasra, unless these are further
qualified to be pronounced as o or e.
 40

SUB -SECTION III.

'

Purling (pumlinga) The Masculine Gender '.

It should be known that Purling, in their terminology, denotes

the masculine gender, that is, man or male. It is of two kinds :

1 That which is a definite noun and has an opposite feminine

.

gender, e.g. Earn and Kdnh, the two well-known devtds.

A definite (or a proper) noun is that which properly
belongs to a person.
2. At the end of an indefinite masculine noun a is affixed, e.g.
mirgd (in which case), a is affixed to the termination
'
of the word mirg (mrga), meaning an antelope ', etc.

SUB-SECTION IV.
'

Astri-ling (stri-linga), The Feminine Gender '.

It should be known that Astrl-ling, in their terminology, means

feminine gender, that is, woman or female. This is also of two kinds :

1. The definite noun, that is, the name of a particular person,

e.g. Slid and Rddhd, names of two well-known women, etc.
2. The indefinite noun ;
it is of two kinds :

That which has a masculine gender opposite to

1. it, e.g.
'

tura&ganl (or turangm), (fol. 356) meaning a mare ', or hastanl,

*
i.e. a female elephant ', etc.
2. That which has no opposite gender to it, e.g. baydr, meaning
' ' '
wind and agan, meaning fire ', etc.
3. The last kind of the feminine gender
is that which is called

irregular use is colloquial, as already mentioned they call certain

; its ;

things feminine and certain things masculine.

When they wish to change a masculine gender to a feminine one,
that is, to change the indefinite masculine to a feminine gender, they
add some suffixes to the masculine which changes it to feminine
gender.
The following are those suffixes :

1. 3., e.g. birdhd (vrddhd), i.e. 'an old woman', for birdh
(vyddha) means an old man ', etc.
'

Let it be clear that a, at the end of the word birdhd,

is in fact a, and d in reality is two a-s when affixed ;

to the word birdh, the first a in the middle is suppressed,

1
leaving one a birdhd. Because the general rule is any :

word that begins with a (hamza), when attached to

another word, the a in its mid-position is suppressed.
2. 7, e.g. devi (fol. 36a), that is, the wife of a dev, etc.

1 The first a refers to the a in Sk. masc. vrddha.

 41

3. Am, e.g. Ruddram, that is, the wife of a Euddr, generally

signifying a (lev and specially Mahddev, etc.
'
4. Ni, e.g. turangani, or turangni, i.e. a mare ', etc.
Sometimes the final I is
dropped and n remains, e.g.
turangan, etc.

SUB-SECTION V.
'

Nipunsak-ling (napumsaka-linga), The Neuter Gender '.

It should be understood that in their terminology, Nipunsak-ling

means the neuter gender, i.e. which is in fact neither masculine nor
feminine. There are a few words of this gender which they use, but
mentioning them here would unnecessarily lengthen the matter. One'
of these words is kundal, meaning a ring ', etc. The use of this gender
is peculiar to the Sahaskirt language and is not used in the Shdkhd.

SUB-SECTION VI.
(Fol. 366).
Buh-bacan (bahu-vacana), '
The Plural Number '.
It should be understood that buh-bacan, in their terminology,
means the plural number.
They consider all numbers above one as plural. It is this way :
at the termination of a singular number they add n and if the letter ;

preceding the n is inert or immoveable, they move it with a, e.g.

' ' ' '
karan and pagan, i.e. hands and feet (respectively). The singulars
of these are kar and pag etc. The exception is this a occurring at
; :

the end of a word, which never moves in any condition, (is kept), e.g.
kulttdn, meaning women of ill fame ', the singular being kulitd,
'

etc. The words that have a final inert i, y or u, w, in them, this

inert y or w is sometimes retained and sometimes moved by a, e.g.
' '
sakhiyan and bhituwan, meaning mistresses the singulars of these ;

are sakhl and bhitu etc.

:
;

The plural is sometimes formed by adding an, e.g. sakhiyan ,

' '
that is, female friends ; etc.

SUB-SECTION VII.
The Demonstrative Pronouns.
The Demonstrative Pronouns are those nouns which point to a
person (or a thing). It should be known that they have seven
pronouns (fol.370) :

' '
1. wa, sing. 3rd person, meaning that (*T).
' '
2. ta, also for sing. 3rd person, meaning that (w).
' '
3. yd, sing. 2nd person, meaning this (*r).
' '
4. ja, sing. 3rd person, meaning whoever (an).
* '
5. un, plur. 3rd person, meaning they (OT).
 42

' J
6. in, plur. 2nd person, meaning these
' '
7. jin, plur. 3rd person, meaning whoever (fsw).

These seven Demonstrative Pronouns are common to the mas-

culine and feminine genders.

SUB-SECTION VIII.
'
Pad-birt (pada-vrtti\ The Sentence '.

It should be known that pad-birt, in their terminology, means

a sentence which is composed of two parts of speech, e.g. Ram
dyo etc.
;

SUB -SECTION IX.

Sambandh (sambandha), 'The Genitive Relation'.
It should be understood that Sambandh, in their terminology,
signifies the genitive relation, that is, the relation by which the first
word is connected with the second. Technically (fol. 1376), the first is
designated muzdf, i.e. the governing noun (or the noun possessed),
and the second muzdf ilaih, i.e. the noun governed.
The genitive construction of (the language of) the Indians contains
three parts of speech, e.g. put Rdm-ko, i.e. the son of Bam '.
'
Hence,
the word put is the noun possessed, the word Ram is the possessing
noun, and the particle ko, at the end, is the sign of the genitive,
t

serving the purpose of li in Arabic, e.g. Qhuldmu li-Zaidin, the

slave of Zaid,' and of kasra-i-izdfat, i.e. the genitive i at the
termination of the governing noun in Persian, e.g. Qhuldm-i-Zaid,
*
i.e. the slave of Zaid '.
Whenever in Hindi, the noun governed precedes the governing
noun, the particle ko, which is the genitive link, is brought in the
middle (in such a case), they would say Rdm-ko put etc. In
: ;

such cases they sometimes drop the sign of the genitive and say :

Ram put ;
etc.

SUB -SECTION X.
On Particles, etc.

The
Particles and syllables that, occurring in the middle, in the
beginning and at the end of nouns, produce different meanings. This
Sub-section is divided into two parts.
A. The Particles that, occurring at the beginning, in the middle
and at the end of nouns, produce different meanings. This (part) is
(further) divided into two divisions :

A
(hamza), at the beginning of nouns, gives a sense of negation
(1)
and deprivation in their terminology it is known as nds (nd6a), i.e.
;

'negation* (fol. 38a). For example, a-jdn, i.e. 'the ignorant', etc.,
' ' '
for jdn means knowledge and the one knowing '.
 43

A (alif), in the middle of nouns, gives a sense of repetition and

' '

recurrence, e.g. caldcal, i.e. all haste ', running '. This a is used
in Persian too.
Bi, at the beginning of nouns, gives a sense of negation and
' ' '

deprivation, e.g. bikal, i.e. restless and perturbed ', as kal means
' ' '
rest and comfort '.
8at at the beginning of nouns, gives a sense of accompaniment,
' ' ' '

e.g. sajal, i.e. watered and flooded ', as jal means water '.
' ' '
Sometimes this aa gives the sense of ability and worth ', e.g.
'

saput, that is, an able and worthy son '. Excepting this word (i.e.
saput), I have not heard any other word in which this particle is
so used.
Su, at the beginning of nouns, gives a sense of being good and
appropriate, e.g. subds, i.e. 'sweet-smell', etc.
Ka, at the beginning of nouns, gives a sense of inability and '

unworthiness, e.g. kaput (fol. 386), i.e. an undeserving son '. Ex-
cepting this word (i.e. kaput), the above-mentioned ka, in this sense,
has also not reached my ears.
' '

Ku, at the beginning of nouns, affords a sense of being bad

and unpleasant ', e.g. kurang, i.e. of bad colour ', etc.
' '

Ni, at the beginning of nouns, gives a sense of negation and

deprivation, e.g. nilaj, i.e. 'shameless' and 'immodest', etc., as laj
' ' '
and laj mean shame and modesty '.

(2) The particles that, occurring at the end of nouns, give different
meanings.
A at the end of nouns, affords a sense of quality and agency,
(alif),
' ' '
1
e.g. kabitd, a poet and one possessing the quality of poetry ',
i.e.
e 1

etc., for kabit means 'poetry'; e.g. devd* i.e. 'the donor one ,

possessing the quality of bestowing '. Sometimes it particularly '

occurs for the feminine gender, e.g. birdhd, i.e. an old woman ',
as birdh means an old man ', as mentioned above.
'
In spite of
that, it sometimes gives a sense of possessing a quality and of
agency, e.g. garbd (fol. 390), i.e. 'a woman possessing the quality
' ' '
of pride and the proud ', etc., for garb means pride '. Some-
times it gives a sense of masculine gender and of the masculine
'

quality, e.g. mirgd, i.e. a male antelope ', etc. At the end of a
definite noun, it serves the purpose of a vocative. vocative is that A
by which a person addressed, e.g. Rdmd !, i.e.
is O Ram ', etc. '

This vocative is used in Arabic and Persian too.

P, at the termination of nouns, affords a sense of ownership
c
and lordship, e.g. bhup, i.e. master and the lord of land ', etc., for
'
bhu means land '.

* Kabit or Kabita both mean

poetry ', but the author thinks, or may be it
was popularly considered a noun of agency from kabit, on the analogy of
'
bakta (vakta, vaca), the speaker '.
8 LSvd (inf. Una, to take '), * one who takes '.
'
 44

T, at the end of nouns, gives a sense of the infinitive, e.g. ganat,

* ' '
i.e. to count and counting ', etc.
T, at the end of nouns, gives the meaning of a noun of agency,
They also add u to the final
'

.g. khevat, i.e. the rower of a boat '.

*, e.g. kMvatil, etc. ' '

J, at the end of nouns, gives a sense of being born (fol. 396),

'

e.g. bdraj, i.e. one born of water ', etc. It is applied to the lotus
'
and whatever is born of water, as bar means water '.
Di, at the end of nouns, gives a sense of an adverb '
of place,
clouds ', etc., for bar means water ', as
'

e.g. bdradi (varida), meaning

mentioned above. '

Dh, it also gives the same meaning, e.g. anbudh (ambvdhi), i.e. an
It is a general rule that di,
'
ocean ', etc., as anb (ambu) means water '.
at the end of a noun, denoting water, affords the sense of a cloud, and
dh, at the end of such a noun, gives the sense of an ocean.
K, at the end of nouns, gives a sense of a noun of agency, e.g.
sevak, meaning 'a servant', etc., for sev and sevd mean 'service'.
Sometimes this k gives the sense of an infinitive, e.g. baidhak, i.e.
4
medical practice ', etc.
G, at the termination of nouns, gives the sense of manner, way
'
and gait, e.g. urag (fol. 40a), i.e. one that goes on its belly ', for
'
ur means chest ', it signifies a snake '. '

N, at the end of nouns, gives a sense of an infinitive, e.g. calan,

meaning 'to go ', manner ', being in vogue ', etc., for col and col
' *

' '
mean method and manner '. Sometimes it serves the purpose '

one who charms ', as moh

'
of a noun of agency, e.g. mohan, i.e.
means fascination ', a state of being charmed '. It also gives the
' '

hands ', etc., for Tear means

'

meaning of plurality, e.g. karan, i.e.

'
a hand '. It also gives the meaning of a feminine gender, e.g.
turangan, i.e.
'
a mare ', etc., for turang means
'
a horse ', as men-
tioned above.
U, at the end of nouns, gives a sense of a noun of agency, e.g.
' '

pakru, meaning a' guard ', etc., for pahra a,ndpahrd mean watching
c

'
and keeping a guard '.
Hi, at the end of nouns, gives the sense of the accusative case,
' ' '

e.g. wahi, i.e. to him ', etc., as wd means he ( frit ).

/, at the end of nouns, gives a sense of relationship (fol. 406),
belonging to Ajmer ', which is the name
'
of a
e.g. Ajmlri, that is,
well-known city in India. This I is also used in Persian. Sometimes ^
' '
it gives the sense of quality or agency, e.g. garbi, i.e. proud or
'
sense of
possessing the quality of pride '. Sometimes this I gives the
feminine gender, e.g. dew, meaning the wife of a dev', as has been
'

mentioned before.
B. Words (and Particles) that, occurring at the end and in the
beginning of nouns, give different meanings. These are classed
into
two divisions :

I. Words that, at the beginning of nouns, give different meanings.

 45

Words that, at the beginning of nouns, give the sense of the

vocative. A
vocative is that by which a person is called, as mentioned
before. Such are ten words :

He, e.g. He Rdml, etc.

(1)
(2) Ahe, e.g. Ahe Rdml, etc.
(3) Ho, e.g. Ho Ram !, etc.
(4) Aho, e.g. Ahd Ram !, etc.
(5) E, e.g. E Raml, etc.
(6) E ho, e.g. E ho Ram !, etc. (fol. 41a).
(7) Are, e.g. Are Ram In addressing a female, this vocative is
I .

pronounced with the vowel i, e.g. An sakhi sakhi means * a lady \ ;

friend*.
(8) Re, without the initial a (in Are), e.g. Re Ram in addressing ;

a female this vocative too is pronounced with the vowel e.g. Ri ,

sakhi, etc_.
(9) E
re, a compound of e and re, e.g. re Ram Here too, E \ .

in the feminine gender, the 2nd part (of the vocative, i.e. re) is turned
into n, e.g. E
ri sakhi I, etc.

(10) Are e, a compound of are and e, e.g. Are e Ram Here too, I .

in the feminine gender, the particle are, the 1st part of the vocative
is pronounced with the vowel i, e.g. Ari e sakhi !, etc.

Particles that, occurring at the beginning of nouns, give a sense

of negation and deprivation. Such are two particles :

'

(1) Nir, e.g. nir-bhau, i.e. fearless ', etc., as bhau means
1
fear '.
'

(2) An, e.g. an-ras, meaning, tasteless ', etc., as ras means
' ' '

flavour and taste '.

Particles (or suffixes) that, occurring at the termination of

II.
nouns 416), give different meanings.
(fol.
Particles that, occurring at the termination ^f nouns, give the
sense of possession and lordship. Such are ten particles :

(1) rup-want, i.e. 'one possessing beauty', etc., as

Wa&t,
'
e.g.
rup means beauty'. In case of masculine gender, sometimes, they
add a to the end of this word and say rup-wantd. In case of the :

feminine gender i is added (as a substitute for the masc. a), they
would say: rup-wanti, etc.
'

(2) Kar, e.g. is, one possessing knowledge and

gun-kdr, that
'
skill ', etc.,as gun means knowledge and skill '.
(3) Pal, e.g. bhu-pal, i.e. 'the owner and lord of lands and
*

country ', for bhu means land '.

'
Pat, e.g. mahi-pat, i.e.
(4) the master and lord of land ',
'
and the lord of a kingdom ', etc. It is also applied to the king,
the master of a land and a country ; for, mahi (fol. 42a) and mahi
mean land. It is a general rule that the particle pat, at the termina-
tion of a noun for land, person and world gives the sense of a Raja,
' '
i.e. a King ; at the end of a noun, denoting a star or night, it gives
 46

the sense of the moon, e.g. mahi-pat, as has been mentioned before ;

nar-pat, jagat-pat, nickattr-pat, nit-pat.

(5) Is, when coupled with another word (as a suffix), its
a (hamza), occurring in the middle, is elided, for the general rule is :

any word, having (an initial) a (i.e. hamza), when coupled (as a
suffix) with another word, the a in its middle position is elided,
'

e.g. Makes, that is, the master and the lord of earth ', etc. This
is also applicable to a king, the master of a country or land, as mahl
and mahi, in the manner mentioned above, mean land '.
'

(6) I war, in Sahaskirt it is pronounced with sh (8) e.g. kabfour, ;

( *
(fol. 426), i.e. the master and lord of poetry ', for Icab means poetry '.
'

(7) I&d, nar-ind, i.e. the master and lord of men ', for nar
means man
'
'.

(8) Raj, e.g. kab-rdj, i.e. 'the king of poets', as kab means
'
a poet '.
'

(9) Ait, e.g. dhalait, i.e. the master and lord of shield ',
'

etc., as dhdl means a shield '.

(10) Awat, it is particularly used for the feminine gender, e.g.

a wealthy woman ', as Lachml means
' '
lachmdwat, i.e. wealth '.
At the end of the letter t, i may be added also, e.g. lachmdvxiti.
Particles (or Suffixes) that, occurring at the termination of nouns,
give the sense of a noun of agency. Such are five particles :

(1) Ayyd, e.g. khilayya (fol. 430), i.e. 'the player', as khel
' '
means play ', sport '.
' '

(2) War, e.g. khilwar, i.e. the player ; etc.

'
Ar, e.g. khildr, i.e.
(3) the player '. At the end of it (the
vowel) I may also be added, e.g. khildri ; etc.
'
(4) Ak, e.g. pairdk, i.e.
'
the swimmer ; etc.

(5) U, e.g. batau, i.e. 'the way-farer ', 'a traveller'; etc.

Particles that, occurring at the termination of nouns, give the

sense of the infinitive (and the verbal noun) Such are eight particles . :

' '

(1) Bo, e.g. bol-bo, i.e. to speak etc. ;

' '

(2) A'i, e.g. tarana'l (fol. 436), i.e.

youth (being young), as
'
taran means youth '. '

(3) Apo, e.g. mutapo, i.e. corpulence ', colloquially they turn
the final 5 into d (so that mutapo) is pronounced as muidpd etc. ;
' '

(4) Pan, e.g. bdl-pan, i.e. child-hood etc. They also use o ;

at the end of n in pan, and say bdl-pano. Colloquially they use a :

instead of ji, and say bdl-panft. :

'

(5) No, e.g. dwanfi, i.e. to come '. Colloquially they use a
instead of o, e.g. dwand.
( ' '

(6) Pat, e.g. cikan-pat, i.e. beautiful ', charming ', blendish-
'
ment ; etc.
' ' '
(7) Ap, e.g. mildp, i.e. concord ', meeting (fol. 44a) ; etc.
' ' '

(8) Ad, e.g. bando, i.e. making ', decorating ; etc.

 47

Particles that, occurring at the termination of nouns, afford the

sense of quality. Such are ten particles :

(1) Td'i, e.g. sivdmtd'i, i.e. 'the quality of darkness', etc., as

'
means dark '. This particle is also used without the second
part of it, i.e. I, e.g. sivdmtd etc. ;

' ' '

(2) At, e.g. cikndt, i.e. the quality of being fatty ', oily etc. ;

Awat, e.g.
(3) mihrawat, i.e. woman-hood ', ' womanliness ',
'

'
for mihri means woman '.
' '
(4) As, e.g. mithds, i.e. the quality of sweet-ness ; etc.
(5) II (fol. 446), in case of masculine gender they add 6 at the
*
end and say r&glld, i.e. one charged with the quality of dandiness '.
:

Colloquially they use a instead of o, e.g. r&glld. In case of feminine

gender, they add I, thus r&gili, i.e. a woman having the quality of
:
'

'
showiness ;
etc.
'
Sdr,
(6) e.g. milan-sdr, i.e. one possessing the quality of
amiability '.
(7) particularly used for the feminine gender, e.g.
Kd, it is

abhsdrikd, i.e. charged

'
a woman
with the quality of ill-repute ', as
' ' ' '
abhsdr means loose living and lewdness ; etc.
' '

(8) Ayo, e.g. dhitdyp, i.e. the quality of impudence ', shame-
'
lessness ; etc.
(9) Ol, in case of masculine gender they add o to the end of I,
thus majholo, ' a middling '. Colloquially they use d instead of o,
:

and say : majhdld, etc. In case of feminine gender (fol. 45a), they
substitute i (for a) to the end of Z and say majholi ; etc. :

(10) Ohci, in case of masculine gender they use after h, e.g. ,

'
bhagohft, i.e. one having the quality of light red colour ', as bhagu
'
means light-red colour '. In case of feminine gender they use I
instead of a, e.g. bhagohl, i.e. a woman having the same quality*
c

(of light-red-ness) ; etc.

Particles that, occurring at the termination of nouns, afford the

sense of diminution. Such are four :

*
(1) Wd
l&gar-wd, i.e.
t a naughty kid ', as Ittgar means
e.g.
'

mischievous '. In case of feminine gender they use yd instead of

' '

wa, e.g. gagar-yd, i.e. a small pitcher ', as gagar means a pitcher '.
This yd in & masculine gender gives a sense of relationship, e.g.
Kanaujiyd (fol. 456), i.e. a man related to Kanauj ', which is a well-
'

known city in India.

c '

(2) Ed, e.g. meh-rd, i.e. a drizzle ; etc.

'

(3) Anna, e.g. dhutaund, i.e. a young child ', etc., as dhdtd
c
means a_boy '.

Up, in case of masculine gender they add 5 (to its end), and
(4)
'

say kalutd,
: i.e. a blackie '. Sometimes they use o for u, e.g.
bharotd, i.e. a small bag ' '
etc. Colloquially, in both the cases, ;

they use d instead of o, e.g. kalutd, and bharotd etc. In cases of ;

feminine gender, they use I instead of a, e.g. Jcaltiii, bharoti, etc.

 48

Particles that, occurring at the end of nouns (fol. 46a), give the
meaning of possession. Such are two particles :

'

(1) Dhar, e.g. gir-dhar, i.e. one holding the mountain '. Gir-
dhar is the name of Kdrih (Krishna), for, they say, he once held aloft
a mountain on the palm of his hand, whence the name Gir-dhar.
The same particle at the end of a noun, denoting earth, gives the
'
sense of a mountain, e.g. dhard-dhar, i.e. one holding the earth '.
' '

(2) Dhari, e.g. jatd-dhdri, i.e. one keeping jatd jatd means ;

coils of hair, sticking together and matted into one '.

'

Particles that, occurring at the termination of nouns, give the

donative sense. Such are two (particles) :
' '

(1) Dd'i, e.g. dukh-dcCi, i.e. one that gives pain and trouble ;

etc.
' '
(2) Dd'ik, e.g. sukh-dd'ik, i.e. one that gives comfort ; etc.

Particles that, occurring at the termination of nouns, give the

sense of performing an action. Such are also two particles :

'

(1) (Fol. 466) Kar, e.g. din-kar, one that makes the day ', it
signifies the Sun.
' '

(2) Kartd, e.g. gun-kartd, i.e. profitable ; etc.

Particles that, occurring at the termination of nouns, give the

sense of ravishing, rapine and stealing. Such are also two
:
particles
(1) Har, e.g. man-kar, i.e. 'heart-ravishing', 'heart-stealing';
etc. add n at the end and say man-ham.
They also In case of
:
'
feminine gender they add i after n and say man-hami, i.e.
: heart-
ravishing lady '.
' '

(2) Hartd, e.g. bati-hartd, i.e. one that clears the wind ', wind-
'

driving etc. ;

Ear is a particle that, at the termination of nouns, affords the

' ' '
sense of fitness and merit, e.g. hon-hdr, i.e. fit ', able and
' '

deserving ; etc.
Aut is a particle that, at the termination of nouns, gives the
'
sense of instrumentality, e.g. kisnaut, i.e. the instrument used
'

(fol. 47a) in husbandry ', for (the word) kisdn means a peasant '.
Sometimes, in case of masculine gender, a is added at the end of '
aut (in such case) they would say kachauta, i.e.
;
the thing by :

' '
which private parts are covered ', for kdch means private parts
and 'thigh '. In case of feminine gender they add i, e.g. kasauti,
' '
i.e. the thing by which gold and silver is assayed ; for Teas means
'
to assay ', 'to test '. Sometimes this particle serves to give the
'

meaning of capacity (of a vessel), e.g. kajrautl, i.e. the thing in

which collyrium is kept '.
Bin is a particle that, at the termination of nouns, gives the
meaning of less, without and excepting, e.g. Idl-bin, i.e. 'without
' '
the beloved ;
and Idl means the beloved '. Sometimes they
also add 3 to the end of n and say lal-bim and sometimes they : ;

place both the particles before the noun, and say bin-ldl, binft-lal ; :

etc.
Sold (fol. 476) is a particle that, at the termination of nouns,
serves to give the meaning of an adverb of place, e.g. dharm-sdld,
i.e. the place for worship, charity, religious devotion and worship of
'

God '. This particle is sometimes used without the terminal a, e.g.
' '

tak-sdl, i.e. the mint ', the market for the business of gold and
'
silver ; etc.
Ahand is a particle that, at the termination of nouns, gives the
'

meaning of smell, e.g. machldhand, i.e. a disgusting smell like that

'
of fish ; etc.
a particle that, at the termination of a noun for a tree,
Car is
' ' '

gives the meaning of an antelope and a monkey ', e.g. rukh-car ;

etc. At the end of a noun for a plain and a forest, it serves to
'

give the same sense, as also of that of the people of the forest and
plains ', e.g. ban-car ; etc. At the
'
end of a noun for water, it serves
f '
to give the meaning of clouds and rain ', e.g. jal-car etc. At ;
'
the end of a noun for night, it serves to give the sense of ghosts V
e.g. nis-car; etc.
Ma'l is a particle that (fol. 48a), at the termination of nouns,
' ' '
serves to give the moaning of multitude and abundance ', e.g.
' *

jalma'i, i.e. abounding in rivulets and rivers ', as jal means water '.
Ana (as) is a particle that, at the termination of nouns, serves
' '
to give the meaning of a part ', a portion ', e.g. (daswas) daswans,
' '
i.e. the tenth part etc. ;

Autl is a particle that, at the termination of nouns, serves to

'

give the meaning of measure, e.g. aamjluwM, i.e. to judge the quantity
'
and measure (of a thing) etc. ;

x"
'
1 The word ajanna aiaJ in the text (plural of
^^i^. janln
an embryo ')

3-
'

incorrectly written for jinna, (plural of demons '. The

is
^-^ ^^ }in),

mistake is very common. Sir W. Jones also has read it as ajanna and marked
' '
its meaning in the margin as embryo .
^JkSV^LU
 296.

jjb Jjbl (jty

tf i^JlJ *&> :J>) ^^ ^ ,<

Jy uJui^ l^ly.0 ; I^IK (fol. SOffl) JA. toil U - jfcM.1 30a.

B.
^jj.
I have considered it convenient to close the spellings within brackets.
A. has
**
D.
:

lAGJi5
<&jf
f
^ o*W
. BW w
L&(j*Ji^
Jg
'/'
*** **-*'
(&^'j# *nd omits J
! **w^j" ^ v/. !
^jf"
A. gives the spelling of
in the text as well.
^/ in the margin and has r^
306.

.
f -
^ jJ J-l j

2 B.
C. omits beginning

has
from ...^ ^^ j to ;/^ a '"

t^.
The word *&&* (without the two diacritical points of o,) is obviously
a later insertion in A. ; it does not occur in the other two, B. and C.

B. has }* for j. 6 B. :;'j &<**-, C. : >;j- and later

 55

* WT , (fol.
,4-s
C X
ut^
j^ Ji )
<*xx

<
^l ^bj ;J ( jy ^

U ot0 *
^flk*) ;J
*Jf ^
-
jJlJl^ Al^.^ ^.^ I;

Jjbl
^ilko! ;J J ^'J^ KJ;^ ^b

J|J ^ ^^su: ^b , Ai^L. ^y ; *L^- ^^ ) VL

c_ft
^xi;
) O/ r;
J (
-
wy j ^^ ^ ^ ^j'^- J;b

Jjb ^.^iU. S^r- ^ ^^ ^ ^ j I;

^L3y ^G j I;
^ )
AA*A
^G uJU Ji. )
<

*
^ (

1 B. omita J^'. 2 A. bears the note :

>J ^
3 A. has a* 1**- * B. : <*
 56

JUIU

I;
oU^ ^y ^1 ^ - W T Jtl^l

(fol. 316)

* C^"f

2 B. omits j'.
i
B. :
*W* ))j> * B. :
y 5 B. :
f~*.
7 B.
'
A. omits the rest of the sentence. : j.
 57

^ (.

o/ ^mL (
-
**>*+* ^^ ^fk 3 '; &>** )

* (. fj^ ^yUiy ^(5 ^ I; ^ ;

Aixii.

Lc J*j

J (fol. 32a)

-
(

l Afefia* is omitted in A. and C.

8 yjf in B, ; this ^ is often avoided in B. 3
^ulr i fl omitted in C.
 *
Ul - AJL^
Jj*io JfiU) J*i
j^tsu ^ J^ii ^U

JJ^ i^JJLxiu* JjJti- eJflxi

326. ;r ^ ^1; j J^- ^ '^ :^i/

) ^r! (foL 326)

*(JL *ij^ USJI jJb (uJ

JU J*i ^
-
JJLJ/ ); JU Jxf

- jJi
JU. J*i j

B. : *. 2 B. omits from A*j*i* to

 59

(fol, 33a) J

-
(

B. Ajy** ^y ^. SB.
 60

uJlC )
^jG

336. -* j (fol. 336) ^y

!^ i^ WT j (
'

JC )
'

^rL7 ^ -
u^u 2

Li I uJ

*
' c^" 1

omitted in A. and B. 2 omitted in A. and B.

^ ^-^
J omitted in B.
 61

J JUSJU ; JU. J* oUJl 0] j ( ;/ (U eK^

J 11* 1
^ (
'

***** ^V ^/^ ^ > '/uf/ -> ^

, (fol. 34a) >A )

I; ^y^* j i^ ^.;G
uJK JiftJ
) Gy JoU;

<
JjsU ; -
jijj/ I; JcU wUo| ^ilk0! ;i) (

i B.
 62

* J * '
-

A,
1
I; ^^ jy ^vy ^1 j
u u^H ^ /'

B. omits *J- 2y omitted in B.

B. misplaces here

^
:

* B. adds :
f*^ f* (&* u^ > t** 9 ) , which belonps to the 2nd
case, omitted in B.
 63

-
( AV** e

t
(f ol. 35a) J**> e/^J ^^^ , 36a.
* b

8
r
*

*
WjA

;J ( 'ZJ;

1 A. omits ^^l^. z B. has j f

for

8 A. and B, * - -^^.
omit^.
 64

i tf Uuu Ji.
Uj( ,

^ ^jj y,!

- '
)U'
356. v-l VJL^) (fol. 356)

- U^VM! ^^clbMi V.i^J^X tX^J *x^i

/l JUxJUw) ^

* -
JUxJLI cfc^i^* I; UfcjJo. ^^^ A*.
J;IJ

^ 13 jJoUJ

jU ( JjA6^ ijJb )
<
I
J^l
- ^^\ ^1 feUJ) ^,1
j
-
JJ/

i B. omits ^V- * B. has ^J^' for J**.

s B. omits from (^AJ A*. ... down to ^ J&>'.
* B. often confuses between <y*H and t*-
1
,
here we have j

' B. omit
 65

* b I; u,

Jl* (
'

^"^ Jk > >^ y ^ ) 'url ri; J

(foL 36a) ;r^- ^1^ , J^x, ^ ^ ;r^- fc^ Jlj,

B. omits i-ftJ'. S B. omits

In B. blank space is left down to &) &> j

5
 66

u ,- J JO.I
C> I

*
(foL 366) wlK ;j

J* j
Ub wy^

JO-I ;
'o-l Jfj,/ J J>* *f
'tti^ ^

I;

1
Again in B. space is left blank down to J-&" ....
2 B. omits AJ- s B. omits ^ 4 B. omita

B B. has Jlk. B. omits

 67

Jl. '." ^^^brfj J JB-I -

* u

in ^ui ?ai

_U

(fol. 37a) Jy ^oU ^ ^ *

;
U1

5;U)

1 B. omits tojA** iflj^ ^.jLi leaving apace.

* B. has **xf instead of *>+*.
8 B. omits: ^y^
 68

r?

>

(
<
MJLU. ^il*y ^.G , I; ^^
j r l/ Jt- '^ f
^^J jl u^- j -^/ I;

*LJU J! J ; Aiy,- AAxi

( ^3 ^

376.
c
* V '-^ '; J-?
1 ij^ ( fol -

Jjb) ^iUI

** **** jyaos ^U* )

^ ;

l B. omits ^ )
* B. omits
(jJtf^J-
> A. omits WJ ** vi-Jb AjUj. 4 B. omits ^^1
,-
 iJ ;J / laiJ
j AjJI uJlfl* fcif
;
p j^

J3U
'

^ ;
o
;r^. p
l

* tt/1 JU-I j

*
;

^ ;
J-> L

38a) Jt.

i-o ( JU l
^ ^ fi

B. omits ^* jf (
. > A. has the marginal note ,.,* J^^
 70

'

f |;T

- -

u JI . <
jJLi
) ^-Lu-

J JBL.I } <jAjL
'
^50
- JJLiu c XjjLi
^Juw (^Ul) JjJ ; l

386. JW j* J (foL 386) uJ^

^ I;
&> )
<
>pj
 71

JU ib )' JJ
r

J; '^^AJA^ J-y- ^ ^ J uJIO) 'Ui Jt.

^ Lj j**X* )
'
IteJ^i Jl* - AJ

-u
(
<8J; A^o ILJ}

(fol. 39a) ;
j

5 -
iff AACj c
^ ;jy

j I; ttgyt. j jH^r^) ^ '^ UE^J* ^^

*> -
J JOcI j Si ^ybT' ^Lo (MJ*M. AixiA.

1 A. omits ,>u AfijJ^. 2 B. has *** instead of o^u.

8 B. &*rau 4 B. *ul*. 5 A. has ^.
 72

f; ^*J Af
Jy ^T |jj
^
. 4L> I jJ
(y

J ,
-
^ J*l j
'

r l; ^1
'
^ U|J'

* >l*-l

396. JJN (foL 396)

ijii. Jlj

2 B.
A. reads *V** c^ j. omits
^;^.
B. omita ^ ty. * B. omit* down to
 73

-
Jt.

7
Jyui^ J) j A*
^1 j^J ;J Xj^-JU

u,! ^T ;J
*LSj J|J

jl >U-1 jL] ;J

(< AiJi Jlj S j ^Uau ^b ^

Ji*^ ;T A*. AJUU.J 8JJ

;; (fol. 40tt) l;

I/I

B. omita down to A^yCie { ))t

\ 2 B. and C. have *y-o.

B. omits ***> A. and B. omit ^-

 74

i** JUI - <

J& (Ju ) j Jt '

*
***^- cy^p* *
( -^y^

G/ ^ 1, (
*- 'J J^l ;
-

406. w*^ G
^ ^^ j >Jt ) *ucft4j J^* (fol. 40&)

1 A. haa ^ for <V&*u. B. omits cU.

8 A. has Al+t* for;^-^. 4 A. and B. omit
 75

J'*) 'o* y <

^ ' ^
ii ('

JiJ

)
<1 ^ .
WT JBUI

-vj ) ^ j
^ y v-^ '^ ufi ^ -

A. and B. have KXjl. > B. omite down to 1

Jj ji>>
 76

' *
J(il ^ L<V^ ufj' J^* A*i(t^ i

;^ ^ (

I;

J15-I

A. omitB down to
 77

(fol. 416) j\j ;J *XuU* Jju ;

j
^j ^ 416.

UJ

/ JU
j

J) *;Kif Jl* ( I;

j flc ^-^U'

vjl- v-^U ^ ;l^ ;

Slijb
^ I; J ,
-
WT JIUI

^ '

u*;
'
o
U (
ryix J;

A. has AiyAx.
 78

, uUjb^^J
1
); Jl >
-
J JlS-l

42a. ^ up*! ;r-^ .ct^)

'
^ (foL 42a)

;J I; ^ <^i; J^j/i^ iJ^ My! ^^ j -

(

^i I; J ^
-
J JO.)

ii

V -1
r^ '

A. and B. omit j&.

B. omits down to *a^ <ytiy.

B. again omits from here down to ^U^x next.
 79

(fol. 426)

JO.I ,

'
JoL- (
WJiii. Uy >Jb JAJ )

-AAL

A. has *y*x). 2 B. has 3 B.

 80

J
j IjjoJb
Jub }
<
Ul
J,|
:

-u/T

; Hi;
iw ( 8^^ iiSJU

1 B. omits the word **&. 2 B. omits down to

8 In B. * B. has misplaced
!?" ^ is spurious here. <_^
fi
B. omits &-
 81

^T ft?)
-
W F JO*! , '^ ^f5x
w >

1 ' '

^J >^$ Ji* ( ^y** Jj ,

* -
yj JO.I j '^il^' (fol. 436) ^e '
^^ ^y ,436.

-
J^ ^^ (
'- ^ , I; y ^U )

is/I

-
^>'; J ^
T jo.)

P ^
'
lx$* : * V -?

Js
1 In A. though the word is spelt as tarna'I, it is written as taruna'i J>\->j-
2 A. corrects the spelling in the margin, which I have given as text here.
The actual spelling in the text of the three MSS. has :
vj****^ (taran).

B. omits the word -'

6
 82

*
\ l -;^
'yl JA*
* - l i < >\ *
) yl Jlvil j '^u* t)^, ^ ^w; ^

*
Jtt-l j (fol. 44a)

*
)
OUu-p JS- (

)
J - J Jtt-l

'
)

l A omits oJi-o,
 83

e/' JB-I ;
'
uA*4 J *>)*** *=-**' ^4 (

- (foL 446)
^ (< f
l .
wJ^a- Ji

11 3 )
r j .?
r*"x^^

'
JiWb - u^lll

^^

(
'
a
J^ atiL.
^liy ^G , Jjjl Jl J

!r* ;
i

( V
i
A. omits 2 B. has 3 B. and C. have
^K/' *M*j?.
* B. omits the text down to the next word {JJ&)
 84

^0 (fol. 45a) r ^a

*<*+*" >V)
5
C^ 1

^ -
tt

U jl
4JO
ycU ^[^ (
-
AJjiU ^3
'Ub Jl. 'jii

>

lJb ! y

JIS-I ^ -'*J^yt' ^Jbu (*_ I; ^^ j r ^ iixii.

y-y^o:
uJ

i A. and B. have JjW. 2 B. omits *^.

3 As spelt, the word should have been written without the final *JjxAx> ^y ,

thus :
c^H nevertheless, the correct reading is just as given.
* B. and C. have <^>.
 85

(< !;utfX~j e/**^ vs^^ t*^**** 456.

(61. 456) ^-jl

?^ ;; ) >
<tj 5
4-
-
J

^ ^13
cJlT ) '/' :
Aij/ ^
dii

' '
- uJjlLuy
^jo ( <*#*" J* 3

1 B. omits down to j'j cjJ^*" f 2 A. and B. omit j';.

8 B. omits down to t
 86

uJ;U3 ^ li,;

46a. ^/J^'J (foL 46a) ,^i

'
Jl. AJUti
) 'yto ( I; ; ry^u J|jj )

Ij J& )

" 1
J '^. '&**>' ^
lxi Ji- (
uJ

i
B. omits 1^*"^ 2 B - oraits > 3 B - omits
 87

) tjft J;'

: c^ J *JJ

(fol. 466) J,1 466.

^ uJK JA>
-o^
)

^
<
isf
^^
- ^ii

jl^
^ )
<uy ^ JL.

i jUJ ,i>
 88

47a)

'

'
( ;'j

<
K> dU. - jiif uu;y:
) A^U
6
oc *

i In B. 2 A. and B. omit
*j~S is spurious here. (

3 B. omits down to next toj*+* Al*^x> ( .^.

* A. has the note <j**tf U* ^jfa-
B A. has the marginal note : ^jf '; <-Uj
' '
^ i^-y-
' '
:

KaS-i-r&n, means the groin ', and kaS also means arm-pit or groin '.
 (^Jj^ (fid. 47&) f
J
j AU^, ^) IL 476.

. jjtj
Jl*

Jll*l ^
- '
^^ Ic^
x&x

J^i ) ^Utf Ji* - jiU JUJU! ^T cJJI ^>J 1; wf tf -

jj/l

* J Jtt-l ^
-
'l^U

* J JUL.I j

B. omits t^>.
8 A. has
^^* 8 A. omits ^*^.
 90

Ji;
)

48a, - .jJbJ
^JAJ! ; cyT ^i*^ joti >UJ ^1^1 ;
J ^ (fol- 48a)

1
Though the word is spelt as mkh-car, it is written rflkh-car.
x O
^

2 B. omits e^- 3 B. omits down to the word jf-- 5 .

* A. has A**l which is incorrect.

6 A. has &jy>*je , which is also correct so far the pronunciation of the word
is concerned.

A. omi
91

Jlj