iUniverse, Date: 2012-08-31. Paperback. Good. 2012. iUniverse ISBN 1475942893 9781475942897 [US]

ISBN10: 1475942893, ISBN13: 9781475942897, [publisher: Iuniverse] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The word Babri was literally used to define something abnormal, out of sense or mad. Three instances mentioned in Babar-Nama support this. Babar's journal is replete with precise detail with a telling image or idiom as 'a bud resembling a sheep's heart', 'fell like water on fire' which lingers in the reader's mind long after the event or anecdote has receded. Few of the phrases and words in the Babar Nama are now part of everyday language in India and Pakistan as 'Namak Haram' means lack of trustworthiness, 'hamesha' means always, 'bakhshish' means gift, 'maidan' means plain area, 'julab' means laxative and the most important, which is of our use here, is 'Babri/Baburi /Bavala' means related to unhealthy mental state or mad or abandoned or one who is abnormal. Babar writes about his infatuation, after his marriage in March AD 1500, for a boy as, 'In those days I discovered myself a strange inclination - no, a mad infatuation-for a boy in the camp's bazaar, his name was Babri/Baburi being apposite. Until then I had no inclination of love and . a couplet of Muhammad Salih came to my mind: When I see my friend I am abashed with shame; My companions look at me, I look away sans aim. This couplet suited my state of mind perfectly. ...
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