← Table of contents
The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Note 551 — SECTION I. FARGHĀNA. (continued 3)

Annette Susannah Beveridge translation

I surmise a double play-of-words in this verse. One is on two rhyming words, ghala and mallah and is illustrated by rendering them as oat and coat. The other is on pointed and unpointed letters, i.e. ghala and ‘ala. We cannot find however a Persian word ‘ala, meaning garment.

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings