Note 52 — The Twelfth New Year’s Feast after my auspicious accession.
Alexander Rogers translation
The passage is obscure, and the MSS. do not throw much light on it. Fortunately for the Mīrzā, there was no bullet in his gun. The word which I have translated by ‘flexible’ is rawān. Perhaps the meaning is quite different. Possibly it is “he would fire a shot and then reload. As many of his bullets had been shot away, he put a pellet (g͟halulā) into his mouth and was shaping it,” etc. ↑