[8] 'Idu'l-fitr, 'the Festival of the Breaking of the Fast'.
[9] Dahi.
[10] The Ajwah date is never sold in Arabia, because the Prophet advised that whosoever break the fast every day with, six or seven of those fruits need fear neither poison nor magic.—Burton, Pilgrimage, i. 401 f.
[11] Known as siwayan, which Musalman servants present on this day to their European masters in India.
[12] Nazr, nazar.
[13] A lumbering, keelless barge, formerly much used by Europeans travelling on the Ganges and its tributaries: bajra meaning 'heavy'.
[14] Khil'at.
[15] Domni, a woman of the Dom or singer class.
[16] Sitara, 'three-stringed', but often possessing four or more strings of steel and brass wire, played with a steel wire frame.
[17] Saranyi.