[9] Jali.
[10] Kurti, a loose, long-sleeved jacket of muslin or net, among rich women embroidered on the neck and shoulders with gold, and draped down to the ankles in full, loose folds. It is made of red or other light-coloured fabrics for girls and married women; dark blue, bronze, or white for old ladies; bronze or black for widows.
[11] Khan, 'lord', 'prince', specially applied to persons of Mughal or Pathan descent.
[12] Bahadur, 'champion', a Mongol term; see Yule,
Hobson-Jobson[2], 48 ff.
[13] Nawab, 'a deputy, delegate': the Anglo-Indian Nabob (ibid., 610 ff.).
[14] Muharram, 'that which is forbidden', the first month of the Musalman year, the first ten days of which are occupied with this mourning festival.
[15] By his wife Ja'dah, who was suborned to commit the deed by Yazid.
[16] Yazid, son of Mu'awiyah, the second Caliph of the house of Umaiyah, who reigned from A.D. 679 to 683. Gibbon (Decline and Fall, ed. W. Smith, vi. 278) calls him 'a feeble and dissolute youth'.
[17] Kerbala, Karbala, a city of Iraq, 50 miles south-west of Baghdad, and about 6 miles from the Euphrates.
[18] Syria.