[6] Gudri.
[7] Ta'awiz.
[8] Among the Khojahs of Bombay a stool is placed near the mother's bed, and as each, of the female relatives comes in she strews a little rice on the stool, lays on the ground a gold or silver anklet as a gift for the child, and bending over mother and baby, passes her hands over them, and cracks her finger-joints against her own temples, in order to take all their ill luck upon herself.—Bombay Gazetteer, ix, part ii, 45.
[9] Duli: see p. 184.
[10] Salgirah or barasganth, 'year-knot'.
[11] Gardani.
[12] P. 36.
[13] The Mahomedans are very keen on breeding pigeons in large numbers; they make them fly all together, calling out, whistling, and waving with a cloth fastened to the end of a stick, running and making signals from the terraced roofs, with a view of encouraging the pigeons to attack the flock of some one else…. Every owner is overjoyed in seeing his own pigeons the most dexterous in misleading their opponents.'—Manucci, Storia do Mogor, i. 107 f.
[14] Mugdar.
[15] Rohu, a kind of carp, Labeo rohita.