Note 166 — KING JALI’AD OF HIND AND HIS WAZIR SHIMAS; FOLLOWED BY THE HISTORY OF KING WIRD KHAN, SON OF KING JALI’AD, WITH HIS WOMEN AND WAZIRS.[55] (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The metaphor (Sabaka) is from horse-racing, the Arabs being, I have said, a horsey people.