Azerbaijani wrestlers in Mughal India
There are many Persian and Turani wrestler and boxers
at Court, as also stone-throwers, athletes of Hindustan, clever Mals
from Gujrat, and many other kinds of fighting men. Their pay varies from 70 to
450 d. Every day two well-matched men fight with each other. Many
presents are made to them on such occasions. The following belong to the best
wrestlers of the age―Mirza Khan of Gilan; Muhammad Quli of Tabriz, to whom His
Majesty has given the name of Sher hamlah, or Lion-attacker; Çadiq
of Bukhara; ‘Ali of Tabriz; Murad of Turkistan; Muhammad
‘Ali of Turan; Fulad of Tabriz; Qasim of Tabriz; Mirza Kuhnansuwar of Tabriz;
Shah Quli of Kurdistan; Hilal of Abyssinia; Sadhu Dayal; ‘Ali; Sri Ram; Kanhya;
Mangol; Ganesh; Anba; Nanka; Balbhadr; Bajrnat’h.
The Ain-i Akbari by Abul Fazl ’Allami, translated from the original
Persian, by H. Blochmann, M.A. Vol. I. ― Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1873,
p. 253.
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