Journal & Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal May & June 1912

In compliance with the instructions of the Provincial of Goa Monserrate had kept a diary during his stay of two years and a half in Mogor. [...] The popular language of the country is Turkish ; yet it differs from that spoken by the Turks.3 At court they speak Persian and though the words and the phrases be the same still the pronunciation and the sounds differ from the language spoken at the Court and in the country of the King of Persia. [...] 5 The cabaia is the surcoat or long tunic of muslin which is one of the commonest native garments of the better classes in India. [...] Those who are always on dUty are—his secretary the governor ('?) the miniter of finance the auditor of the exchequer the censor (?) the chief chamberlain the major-domo the lord-marshal the chief treasurers the chief usher the palace jailer the prefect of the ministers of justice and the head-cook. [...] The butler and the kitchen-servants bring them up to a certain place where they are taken up by women.' 1 " I doubt the correctness of the translation about the arrow turning in the air.