rticles--pleasure boats, carriages, &c. Some of the King's Chobdhaars
carry a staff representing a gold or silver fish. [_Author_.] [The
Order of the Fish (_mahi maratib_) is said to have been founded
by Khusru Parviz, King of Persia (A.D. 591-628), and thence
passed to the Moghul Emperors of Delhi and to the Court of Oudh.--W.H.
Sleeman, _Rambles and Recollections_, ed. V.A. Smith, 135 ff.]

[5] Nasir-ud-din Haidar, son of Ghazi-ud-din Haidar, whom
he succeeded in 1827, died, poisoned by his own family, in 1837. 'He
differed from his father, Ghazi-ud-din Haidar, in being
considerably more debauched and disreputable. His father had been an
outwardly decent hedonist and voluptuary, but the son was under no
restraints of any sort or kind, and it is probable that his character
was not unfavourably depicted in that highly coloured sketch, "The
Private Life of an Eastern King" (by W. Knighton, 1855). "Any one", we
are told, "was his friend who would drink with him," and his whole
reign was one continued satire upon the subsidiary and protected
system.'--H.C. Irwin, _The Garden of India_, p. 117.

[6] _Harkara_, 'a messenger, orderly'.

[7] _Palki_, the common palanquin or litter; _chandol_, usually carried
by four men at each end (a drawing representing one carried by twelve
men will be found in N. Manucci, _Storia do Mogor_, iv. 32, and see ii.
76 f.;) _miyana_, a middle-sized litter out of which the type used
by Europeans was developed; the Anglo-Indian 'dhooly', properly
_duli_; the _rath_ is a kind of bullock-carriage, often with
four wheels, used by women and by portly merchants.

[8] Known as 'Ashura.

[9] See a graphic account of the procession at Bombay in Sir G. Birdwood,
_Sva_, 177 ff.

[10] _Jilaudar, Jalaudar_, properly an attendant holding the bridle
of a mounted officer or magnate.

[11] The afthaadah is a sun embroidered on crimson velvet, both sides the
same, and fixed on a circular framework, about two yards in
circumference; this is attached to a silver or gold staff, the circle
deeply and fully flounced with gold brocade, or rich silk bound with
silver ribands. The person riding is sheltered from the rays of the
sun by the afthaadah being carried in an elevated position.
[_Author_.] (See p. 38.)

[12] _Chobdar_, 'a stick-or staff-bearer'.

[13] _Sontabardar_, 'a bearer of the silver