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pushtah : 'Dike, embankment; quay; mound, hill, eminence'. (Platts p.263)
tii;N is short for ta))ii;N
FWP:
SETS
MOTIFS == MADNESS
NAMES
TERMSWith regard to that last point, SRF might well have added that the speaker isn't even trying to stop the slaughter entirely. Rather, he's only trying to slow the beloved down: from now on she should do not zero slaughter but 'less' [kam] slaughter. And the reason he gives is also a suitably mad and bloodthirsty one: that the slain already lie around in heaps (and rhyming heaps, at that-- pushte made of kushte ). The heaps are already so huge and long-established that they seem to form features of the landscape-- 'embankments' or 'mounds' or 'hills' (see the definition above). Perhaps there is now a shortage of space, or some other practical inconvenience (though, in the ghazal world, definitely not the terrible stench of rotting flesh).
So it's not as though the beloved hasn't had her fun, or doesn't have enough slaughtered victims to contemplate. She must only be careful not to become infected with the same contagion that brought her lovers to their doom: she mustn't go mad. But of course it seems quite possible that, like Macbeth, she's mad already.