Note 4 — The Fifteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

That is, I presume, he did not really utter the words, but his appearance represented them. The Iqbāl-nāma has, p. 138, mihmān chū Bīga (“a guest such as a Begam”). MS. 181 has nāgah chū Sult̤ān. I.O. MS. 305 has nāgah chū mihmān. The reading Bega or Begam certainly seems preferable. The text is wrong as usual, and has mihān (“the great”), unless it is to be read mahān, and taken in the sense of Moons—i.e., ladies. ↑