Note 60 — The Fifteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

The MSS. have ṭaṭṭū. Both they and the text have also the words chahār s͟hāna ba-zamīn nazdīk. Chahār s͟hāna means a dwarf. Literally it means “four shoulders,” and Vullers following, the Bahār-i-ʿAjam, defines it as a man of small stature with thick shoulders. Evidently the words ba-zamīn nazdīk are meant as an explanation or addition to Chahār-s͟hāna, and signify that the yābū or ṭaṭṭū has his withers near the ground. The words also occur in the Iqbāl-nāma, 154. ↑