Note 112 — THE ROSE OF BAKÁWALÍ.

Burák was the name of the animal that carried Muhammed on his famous (and fabulous) Night Journey through the Seven Heavens; for an account of which see Muir’s Life of Mahomet, ii, 219-222; Lane’s Modern Egyptians; and D’Herbelot’s Bibliothèque Orientale, art. Borak.—According to the Sikandar Náma (Alexander-Book) of Nizamí, Burák was silken as to body, silvern as to hoof, and to such a degree swift moving that nothing could equal him.—Canto iv, 12, p. 32 of Clarke’s translation.