Machine summary:
Besides the military sports, which were included in the edu• cational curriculum of a man of culture, many other sports were conducted; for instance, vigorous exercises like polo, animal fights, wrestling, horse-racing for heavy exercises, and light entertainment such as pigeon flying and acrobatics.
The whole of this section can be divided into two main divisions, firstly, the outdoor sports, which have been enumerated above and secondly, the indoor games and amusements such as music, dancing, chess, chauipar, chandal mandal, ganjfah and buffoonery.
Foster, Oxford, 1921) Mundy, ii, 126/128 (The Travels of Peter Mund)', Vol. ii, Richard Carnac Temple, Hakluyt Society Publication), Bernier, 177 /78 ( Travels in Mughal Empire, Constable, Oxford, 1916), Kaumudi, 17/18 and P-1 VII, XVI, iStudies in Mughal Paintings, .
r Ram fighting, flying pigeon, and cock fighting were considered the sport of ulittle people" in the time of Bahar, and not the pastime of kings.
" (Abul Fadl), For pigeons compare Ain-i-Akbari, 215/18, Persian.
" Smith, V, 422 (Akbar, the Great Mughul, Oxford, 1917,) Tuzuk-i-f ahangiri, English i, 150.
(Akbar Namah, Persian ii, 83/84, English ii, 128) Besides these, there were other public women who sat in the bazar or lay on their cots in their balconies.
For public women consult Ain-i-Akbari, Persian ii, 143 ; English iii, 257.
Akbar Namah, Persian ii, 368; Persian iii, 391; English ii, 534, Ashraf 297 (Life and Condition of the People of Hindustan ( 1200-1526), published in the Journal of Asiaiic Society cf Bengal (Letters).