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Addenda and Corrigenda

This list does not include errors of translation which have been corrected in the Notes.

p. 2, l. 1. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian phrase omitted].

p. 5, l. 2. For ‘Adrā read ‘Adhrā.

p. 14, beyt 6. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted].

p. 22, beyt 6. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted]. [Persian word omitted] is required by the rhyme in T. 165. 1 (quoted in the note to XVI. 10), T. 35. 4ᵃ, etc.

p. 24, beyt 9. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted]; also in XV. 3.

p. 24, beyt 13. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted].

p. 24, beyt 14. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted].

p. 26, beyt 4. Cf. Gulshani Rāz, 450.

p. 34, beyt 9. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted]; also in XXII. 5, XXIX. 11.

p. 38, l. 1. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian phrase omitted].

p. 42, l. 1. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian phrase omitted].

p. 44, beyt 13. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted].

p. 50, beyt 4. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted].

p. 50, beyt 7. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted]; also in XX. 7, XLVIII. 11.

p. 54, beyt 3. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted].

p. 58, beyt 5. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted].

p. 60, beyt 16: [Persian phrase omitted]. Cf. Yāqūt’s Mushtarik (Ed. Wüstenfeld), p. 77, l. 4.

p. 64, beyt 7. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted].

p. 76, beyt 4. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted].

p. 80, beyt 1: [Persian phrase omitted]. Cf. the story of the Faqīr and the hidden treasure, Whinfield’s Mas̤navī, p. 298 seq.

p. 84 (at the foot). After Lakh. add T.

p. 92, beyt 7. For [Arabic word omitted] read [Arabic word omitted].

p. 94, l. 1. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted], and for [Persian word omitted] read [Persian phrase omitted].

p. 98, beyt 4: [Persian word omitted]. The grammars give only [Persian word omitted] as the Imperative of [Persian infinitive omitted], but if I have rightly explained [Persian word omitted] (XXXVI. 11), the form [Persian word omitted] must also be admitted, as in that passage the pointing with kasra is demanded by the rhyme.

p. 100, beyt 14: [Persian phrase omitted]. On bridges as stands for beggars see Mayor’s Juvenal, IV. 116, note, and on blind beggars, cf. ibid. 117, note.

p. 112 (at the foot). After BCL add T.

p. 140. In my critical notes to this ghazal (XXXVI.) I find that I have unaccountably confused the MSS. B2 and B3. The following corrections are necessary:

beyt 2. Transpose B2 and B3.

beyt 3. For B3 read B2.

beyt 7. Delete B2 after [Persian phrase omitted] and insert it after [Persian phrase omitted].

beyt 8. After [Persian phrase omitted] read B2 for B3.

beyt 10. After [Persian word omitted] read B2 for B3. After [Persian phrase omitted] read B3 for B2.

beyt 13. Add B2 after [Persian phrase omitted].

beyt 14. After [Persian word omitted] read B2 for B3.

beyt 16. Delete B2B3 after [Persian phrase omitted].

beyt 17. Delete B3 after [Persian phrase omitted].

p. 140, beyt 2. For [Persian word omitted] read [Persian word omitted].

p. 148, last line. After [Persian phrase omitted] delete B.

p. 156, beyt 8. For [Arabic word omitted] read [Arabic word omitted].

p. 180, beyt 7 (note on [Persian word omitted]). Cf. De Sacy’s Chrestomathie Arabe (2nd ed.), Vol. I. p. 280, where he attributes to [Arabic word omitted] the meaning of gelée, suc épaissi.

p. 247 (second line from the foot). [Arabic phrase omitted] refers properly to the spirit of Muḥammad, who is identified with [Arabic phrase omitted] (see IX. 5, note).

p. 333, B (a), beyt 2: [Persian phrase omitted]. Possibly the poet means Universal Reason, ‘which bears the same relation to the great world ([Arabic phrase omitted]) and its realities as the spirit of Man to the body and its faculties’ (Jurjānī, Kitābu’tta‘rīfāt, p. 39, under [Arabic phrase omitted]). Cf. Ssufismus, p. 277.