[3] Khawass, 'distinguished': special attendants.
[4] Mughlani, a Moghul woman: an attendant in a zenana, a sempstress.
[5] Kahani.
[6] Chausa, chhahsa, not to be found in Platt's Hindustani
Dictionary.
[7] The game of Pachisi, played on a cloth marked in squares: see
Bombay Gazetteer, ix, part ii, 173.
[8] Gambling is one of the greater sins.—Sale, Koran: Preliminary
Discourse, 89; Sells, Faith of Islam, 155.
[9] Fixed punkahs were introduced early in the nineteenth century.—Yule,
Hobson-Jobson, 744.
[10] Firdausi, author of the Shahnama, died A.D. 1020 or 1025, aged 89 years. An abridged translation, to which reference is made, by J. Atkinson, was published in 1832. It has since been translated by A.G. and E. Warner (1905), and by A. Rogers (1907).
[11] Shaikh Sa'di, born at Shiraz A.D. 1175, died 1292, aged 120 lunar years. His chief works are the Gulistan and the Bostan.
[12] Khwaja Hafiz, Shams-ud-din Muhammad, author of the Diwan Hafiz, died at Shiraz A.D. 1389, where his tomb at Musalla is the scene of pilgrimage; see E.G. Browne, A Year amongst the Persians, 280 f.