Lalla Rookh Author:Thomas Moore Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AUTHOR'S NOTES. Page 21.—He embarked for Arabia,—These particulars of the visit of the King of Bucharia to Aumngzebe are found in Dow's "History of Hindostan,... more »" vol. iii. p. 392. P. 21.—Lalla Eookh—Tulip cheek. P. 21.—Leila.—The mistress of Mejnoun, upon whose story so many romances in all the languages of the East are founded. P. 21.—Shirine.—For the loves of this celebrated beauty with Khosrou and with Ferhad, see D'Herbelot, Gibbon, " Oriental Collections," etc. P. 21.—Dewilde.—" The history of the loves of Dewilde' and Chizer, the son of the Emperor Alla, is written in an elegant poem, by the noble Chusero."—(Ferishta.) P. 22.—Scattering of the Roses.—Gul Eeazee. P. 22.—Insignia of the Emperor's favour.—" One mark of honour or knighthood bestowed by the Emperor is the permission to wear a small kettledrum at the bows of their saddles, which at first was invented for the training of hawks, and to call them to the lure, and is worn in the field by all sportsmen to that end."—(Fryer's Travels.) " Those on whom the King has conferred the privilege must wear an ornament of jewels on the right side of the turban, surmounted by a high plume of the feathers of a kind of egret. This bird is found only in Cashmere, and the feathers are carefully collected for the King, who bestows them on his nobles."—(Elphinstone's Account of Caubul.) P. 22.—The great Keder Khan.—" Khedar Khan, the Kha- kan, or King of Tnrquestan beyond the Gihon (at the end of the eleventh century), whenever he appeared abroad, was preceded by seven hundred horsemen with silver battle-axes, :and was followed by an eqnal number bearing maces of gold. He was a great patron of poetry, and it was he who used to preside at public exercises of genius, with four basins of gold and silver by him to d...« less