Note 56 — The Fifteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

Text kūhī (“hill”); but this is opposed to the MSS. and also to the Āyīn-i-Akbarī which Jahāngīr is evidently copying. See Jarrett II. 350, and n. 3, and Persian text, I. 563. The I.O. MSS. of Tūzuk have kaddī or gaddī. Gaddī is the name of a pastoral tribe (see Lawrence, 12), and there is a Turkish word kedī meaning a cat, and a word gaddī which means “horned.” The Iqbāl-nāma, 153, has “kadī-i-Hindustān.” Jarrett, loc. cit. states that handū in Kashmiri means a domestic ram. The word for tailless is bī-dumba, and perhaps means that the sheep have not the enormously thick tails of some kinds of hill sheep. ↑