Note 88 — Feast of the Second New Year.

There is evidently something wrong in the text, for a ruby weighing 6 surkhs could not weigh 2 tanks and 15 surkhs. I.O. MS. 181 has barja instead of surk͟h, but I do not know what this means. Perhaps s͟has͟h-gūs͟ha, ‘hexagonal,’ was intended. This view is confirmed by the Iqbāl-nāma, p. 31, which has s͟has͟h pahlū, ‘six-sided.’ Erskine’s MS. also had ‘six-sided,’ and he translates “a six-sided ruby which weighed two tangs fifteen surkhs.” I.O. MS. 305 has s͟has͟h pārcha, and it is evident that this word, as also the barja of No. 181, is the pārche of Steingass, which means a segment or facet. ↑