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4. More Light on 'Omar Khayām

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1899

References

page 135 note 1 A Durayā is a headman of the jaggery, palankin-bearer, and cinnamon-peeler castes.

page 135 note 2 The Portuguese diarist says: “On the 13th four Pachas deserted.” This the English translator (in Churchill's, Voyages,” vol. iiiGoogle Scholar) renders: “The 13th we sent away four Pachas, or Advice-boats”! He evidently confounded Pachas with pataxos.