Word Meaning
बे-शीशा-बाज़ी
be-sheesha-baazi
Meaning
Being without wine-flask revelry; lacking the ceremonial art of drinking and goblet-play.
Detailed Meaning
Literally referring to an absence of dexterity or play involving glass vessels, it denotes revelry or royal pageantry carried on without the wine cup. In the cited couplet, it implies that true sovereignty (like Jamshid's) is inseparable from the illuminated cup, and kingship without this symbolic drinking-play is incomplete. It contrasts sober or hollow rule with the majestic tradition of Persian sovereign revelry.
Etymology
Persian compound formed from the preposition 'be-' (without), 'shīsha' (glass, flask, flagon), and the verbal noun 'bāzī' (playing, sport, manipulation).
Usage
A rare poetic coinage typically juxtaposed against classical motifs of wine, sovereignty, and the mythic mirror-cup of Jamshid.
Examples
Without the play of the cup, this assembly bears no regal splendor.
True reign accepts no empty court devoid of the glass.