Note 2565 — SECTION III. HINDŪSTĀN (continued 4)
Annette Susannah Beveridge translation
jīrgā. This instance of its use shews that Bābur had in mind not a completed circle, but a line, or in sporting parlance, not a hunting-circle but a beaters'-line. [Cf. f. 251, f. 364b and infra of the crocodile.] The word is used also for a governing-circle, a tribal-council.