Note 6 — CHAPTER 7
Reading edition
[“The introductory stanza of a poem or song, which is repeated as a kind of burden or chorus” (Platts, Urdu Dict. s.v. dhur): “petit poëme ordinairement composé de cinq hémistiches sur une même rime” (Garçin de Tassy, Hist. Litt. Hindouie, i. 22). It is said to have been invented by Rāja Mān of Gwalior (Memoirs of Jahāngīr, trans. Rogers-Beveridge, 271).]