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The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Note 1800 — SECTION III. HINDŪSTĀN

Annette Susannah Beveridge translation

Erskine noting (Mems. p. 321), that the bustard is common in the Dakkan where it is bigger than a turkey, says it is called tūghdār and suggests that this is a corruption of tūghdāq. The uses of both words are shewn by Bābur, here, and in the next following, account of the charz. Cf. G. of I. i, 260 and E. D. Ross l.c. Nos. 36, 40.

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