Dar safi Mardán zani sher afkanast.
Núr Jehán the tiger-slayer’s woman
Ranks with men as the tiger-slaying woman.
Sherafkan, that is tiger-slayer, was the title of Núr Jehán’s first husband Ali-Kuli Istajlu. [↑]
[109] Tuzuk-i-Jehángíri Pers. Text, 187. [↑]
[110] Tuzuk-i-Jehángíri Pers. Text, 189. [↑]
[111] The miskál which was used in weighing gold was equal in weight to ninety-six barleycorns. Blochman’s Áin-i-Akbari, 36. [↑]
[112] Tuzuk-i-Jehángíri Pers. Text, 195. [↑]