Storia do Mogor 203.1.2

203.1.2

All the above names are Hindu, and ordinarily these overseers of the music are Hindus by race, who have been carried off in infancy from various villages or the houses of different rebel Hindu princes. In spite of their Hindu names, they are, however, Mahomedans. Each has under her orders about ten apprentices; and along with these apprentices they attend the queens, the princesses, and the concubines. Each one has her special rank according to her standing. The queens and the other ladies pass their time in their rooms, each with her own set of musicians. None of these musicians are allowed to sing elsewhere than in the rooms of the person to whom they are attached, except at some great festival. Then they are all assembled and ordered to sing together some piece or other in praise of, or to the honour of, the festival. All these women are pretty, have a good style and much grace in their gait, are very free in their talk and exceedingly lascivious, their only occupation, outside the duties of their office, being lewdness. 'Bae' in the Hindu language means 'madam' or 'lady.'
The names of the principal slaves or women servants in the mahal are:
Golal Gulal The Rose Chambely Chambeli The Jasmine Flower Narguis Nargis The Tulip Flower Guecer Kesar Saffron Gaal badam Gul-i-badam Almond Flower
Sosen Sosan The Lily Flower
Hyassaman Yasmin The Festival [i.e., Jashan]
Castury Kasturi Musk
Continuation of the names of the principal slaves in the mahal: