The Memoirs of Bābur 932.9.2

932.9.2

Another is a deer (_kiyīk_) after the fashion of the male deer (_aīrkākī hūna_) of the _jīrān_.[1755] Its back is black, its belly white, its horns longer than the _hūna's_, but more crooked. A Hindūstānī [Sidenote: Fol. 276b.] calls it _kalahara_,[1756] a word which may have been originally _kālā-haran_, black-buck, and which has been softened in pronunciation to _kalahara_. The doe is light-coloured. By means of this _kalahara_ people catch deer; they fasten a noose (_ḥalqa_) on its horns, hang a stone as large as a ball[1757] on one of its feet, so as to keep it from getting far away after it has brought about the capture of a deer, and set it opposite wild deer when these are seen. As these (_kalahara_) deer are singularly combative, advance to fight is made at once. The two deer strike with their horns and push one another backwards and forwards, during which the wild one's horns become entangled in the net that is fast to the tame one's. If the wild one would run away, the tame one does not go; it is impeded also by the stone on its foot. People take many deer in this way; after capture they tame them and use them in their turn to take others;[1758] they also set them to fight at home; the deer fight very well. There is a smaller deer (_kiyīk_) on the Hindūstān hill-skirts, as large may-be as the one year's lamb of the _arqārghalcha_ (_Ovis poli_).