a kind of striped silk cloth

large bedstead

monthly salary, emoluments, pay, wages, allowance

advertisement, fame, reputation, notoriety

observation, witnessing, survey

society

society, living together, human environment, togetherness

an assembly where poets recite their poetry

Commenced, initiated, prescribed by law

non-vegetarian

religious, strictly observing Sharia

reciting poetry in a poetic gathering

observe, behold

power to observe, faculty of perception

one who presides over a mushaira

president of a Mushaira, a poetic symposium (poetry recital session)

food eaten by Mohammedans a little before dawn during the fast of Ramazan