Ferishta’s Hist. (J. R. A. Soc. xiii.). Besides Bedar, Bednor (or Nagar) in Mysore seems to take its
name from this tribe. [See Rice, Mysore, i. 255.]
1758.—“… The Cavalry of the Rao … received such a defeat from Hydur’s Bedes or Kuzzaks that they fled
and never looked behind them until they arrived at Goori Bundar.”—Hist. of Hydur Naik, p. 120.
1785.—“Byde
Horse, out of employ, have committed great excesses and depredations in the Sircar’s dominions.”—Letters
of Tippoo Sultan, 6.
1802.—“The Kakur and Chapao horse … (Although these are included in the
Bede tribe, they carry off the palm even from them in the arts of robbery) …”— H. of Tipú, by Hussein ’Ali
Khan Kirmani, tr. by Miles, p. 76.
[BYLEE, s. A small two-wheeled vehicle drawn by two oxen. H. bahal, bahli, baili, which has no connection,
as is generally supposed, with bail, ‘an ox’; but is derived from the Skt. vah, ‘to carry.’ The bylee is
used only for passengers, and a larger and more imposing vehicle of the same class is the Rut. There
is a good drawing of a Panjab bylee in Kipling’s Beast and Man (p. 117); also see the note on the quotation
from Forbes under HACKERY.
[1841.—“A native bylee will usually produce, in gold and silver of great purity, ten times the weight of
precious metals to be obtained from a general officer’s equipage.” —Society in India, i. 162.
[1854.—“Most
of the party … were in a barouch, but the rich man himself [one of the Muttra Seths] still adheres
to the primitive conveyance of a bylis, a thing like a footboard on two wheels, generally drawn by two
oxen, but in which he drives a splendid pair of white horses, sitting cross-legged the while!”—Mrs Mackenzie,
Life in the Mission, &c., ii. 205.]
