Chapter BURREL to BUXEE of B by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

touto exellhnizetai.” —Georg. Pachymeres de Andronico Palaeologo, Lib. vii. The last part of the name of this Kutzimpaxis, ‘the first of the sacred magi,’ appears to be Bakhshi; the whole perhaps to be Khoja-Bakhshi, or Kuchin-Bakhshi.

c. 1340.—“The Kings of this country sprung from Jinghiz Khan … followed exactly the yassah (or laws) of that Prince and the dogmas received in his family, which consisted in revering the sun, and conforming in all things to the advice of the Bakshis.”—Shihabuddin, in Not. et Extr. xiii. 237.

1420.—“In this city of Kamcheu there is an idol temple 500 cubits square. In the middle is an idol lying at length, which measures 50 paces.… Behind this image … figures of Bakshis as large as life.…” —Shah Rukh’s Mission to China, in Cathay, i: cciii.

1615.—“Then I moved him for his favor for an English Factory to be Resident in the Towne, which hee willingly granted, and gave present order to the Buxy, to draw a Firma both for their comming vp, and for their residence.”—Sir T. Roe, in Purchas, i. 541; [Hak. Soc. i. 93.]

c. 1660.—“… obliged me to take a Salary from the Grand Mogol in the quality of a Phisitian, and a little after from Danechmend-Kan, the most knowing man of Asia, who had been Bakchis, or Great Master of the Horse.”—Bernier, E.T. p. 2; [ed. Constable, p. 4].

1701.—“The friendship of the Buxie is not so much desired for the post he is now in, but that he is of a very good family, and has many relations near the King.”—In Wheeler, i. 378.

1706-7.—“So the Emperor appointed a nobleman to act as the bakshí of Kám Bakhsh, and to him he intrusted the Prince, with instructions to take care of him. The bakshí was Sultan Hasan, otherwise called Mír Malang.”—Dowson’s Elliot, vii. 385.

1711.—“To his Excellency Zulfikar Khan Bahadur, Nurzerat Sing (Nasrat-Jang?) Backshee of the whole Empire.”—Address of a Letter from President and Council of Fort St. George, in Wheeler, ii. 160.

1712.—“Chan Dhjehaan … first Baksi general, or Muster-Master of the horsemen.” —Valentijn, iv. (Suratte), 295.

1753.—“The Buxey acquaints the Board he has been using his endeavours to get sundry artificers for the Negrais.”—In Long, 43.

1756.—Barth. Plaisted represents the bad treatment he had met with for “strictly adhering to his duty during the Buxy-ship of Messrs. Bellamy and Kempe”; and “the abuses in the post of Buxy.”—Letter to the Hon. the Court of Directors, &c., p. 3.

1763.—“The buxey or general of the army, at the head of a select body, closed the procession.”—Orme, i. 26 (reprint).

1766.—“The Buxey lays before the Board an account of charges incurred in the Buxey Connah … for the relief of people saved from the Falmouth.”—Ft. William, Cons., Long, 457.

1793.—“The bukshey allowed it would be prudent in the Sultan not to hazard the event.”—Dirom, 50.

1804.—“A buckshee and a body of horse belonging to this same man were opposed to me in the action of the 5th; whom I daresay that I shall have the pleasure of meeting shortly at the Peshwah’s durbar.”—Wellington, iii. 80.

1811.—“There appear to have been different descriptions of Buktshies (in Tippoo’s service). The Buktshies of Kushoons were a sort of commissaries and paymasters, and were subordinate to the sipahdâr, if not to the Resâladâr, or commandant of a battalion. The Meer Buktshy, however, took rank of the Sipahdâr. The Buktshies of the Ehsham and Jyshe were, I believe, the superior officers of these corps respectively.”—Note to Tippoo’s Letters, 165.

1823.—“In the Mahratta armies the prince is deemed the Sirdar or Commander; next to him is the Bukshee or Paymaster, who is vested with the principal charge and responsibility, and is considered accountable for all military expenses and disbursements.” —Malcolm, Central India, i. 534.

1827.—“Doubt it not—the soldiers of the Beegum Mootee Mahul … are less hers than mine. I am myself the Bukshee … and her Sirdars are at my devotion.”— Walter Scott, The Surgeon’s Daughter, ch. xii.

1861.—“To the best of my memory he was accused of having done his best to urge the people of Dhar to rise against our Government, and several of the witnesses deposed to this effect; amongst them the Bukshi.”— Memo. on Dhar, by Major McMullen.

1874.—“Before the depositions were taken down, the gomasta of the planter drew aside the Bakshí. who is a police-officer next to the darogá.”—Govinda Samanta, ii. 235.

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