Note 2099 — SECTION III. HINDŪSTĀN (continued 3)
Annette Susannah Beveridge translation
tīr. My husband thinks there is a play upon the two meanings of this word, arrow and the planet Mercury; so too in the next sentence, that there may be allusion in the kuākib s̤awābit to the constellation Pegasus, opposed to Bābur’s squadrons of horse.