Qanoon-e-Islam, or, the Customs of the Moosulmans of India : compromising a full and exact account of their various rites and ceremonies from the moment of birth till the hour of death . escribed below three tables, a cou-plet, and a hemistich, that it may the more readily be com-prehended. The first table is the one in most general use. • Note. T^ide page 275. t Rijal-ool-^yb, is an invisible being which moves in a circularorbit round the world. On different days his station is in differentplaces. His influence on each day is especially exerted during nineghurrees (or three hours and thirty-s
Qanoon-e-Islam, or, the Customs of the Moosulmans of India : compromising a full and exact account of their various rites and ceremonies from the moment of birth till the hour of death . escribed below three tables, a cou-plet, and a hemistich, that it may the more readily be com-prehended. The first table is the one in most general use. • Note. T^ide page 275. t Rijal-ool-^yb, is an invisible being which moves in a circularorbit round the world. On different days his station is in differentplaces. His influence on each day is especially exerted during nineghurrees (or three hours and thirty-six minutes), at the close of thattith, or lunar day; and, in that interval, it is unfortunate to begin ajourney.—Shak. Hindmt. Did. 396 CONCERNING TRAVELLING. Chap. West. • /> \ .^- / 1219 y <V 27 JN. g K s; «> W \ N^ / 63 V^ ^* \ / y^4^ ??sBa W. Friday. Sunday. c« 1 H •XBpjTUBS•XBpUOI\[ 1 :^ a There is also a couplet made use of to retain the abovein ones recollection, mz. East, on Saturday and Monday; on Friday and Sunday, West;On Tuesday and Wednesday, North; on Thursday, South addrest. XXXV. CONCERNING TRAVELLING. 397. •3iqK;yoja -g
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