[FN#92] Arab. "Sallah," also Pers., a basket of wickerwork. This article is everywhere used for lodging snakes from Egypt to Morocco.
[FN#93] Arab. "Mubбrak." It is a favourite name for a slave in
Morocco; the slave-girl being called Mubбrakah; and the proverb
being, "Blessed is the household which hath neither M'bбrk nor
M'bбrkah" (as they contract the words).
[FN#94] The Bresl. Edit. (viii. 48) instead of the Gate (Bбb) gives a Bбdhanj=a Ventilator; for which latter rendering see vol. i. 257. The spider's web is Koranic (lxxxi. 40) "Verily frailest of all houses is the house of the spider."
[FN#95] Prob. from the Persian Wird=a pupil, a disciple.
[FN#96] And yet, as the next page shows the youth's education was complete in his twelfth year. But as all three texts agree, I do not venture upon changing the number to six or seven, the age at which royal education outside the Harem usually begins.
[FN#97] i.e. One for each day in the Moslem year. For these object-lessons, somewhat in Kinder-garten style, see the Book of Sindibad or The Malice of Women (vol. vi. 126).
[FN#98] Arab. "Jahбbizah" plur. of "Jahbiz"=acute, intelligent (from the Pers. Kahbad or Kihbad?)
[FN#99] Arab. "Nimr" in the Bresl. Edit. viii. 58. The Mac. Edit. suggests that the leopard is the lion's Wazir.
[FN#100] Arab "Kaun" lit. =Being, existence. Trйbutien (iii. 20) has it "Qu'est-ce que l' кtre (God), l'existence (Creation), l'кtre dans l'existence (the world), et la durйe de l'кtre dans l'existence (the other world).
[FN#101] i.e for the purpose of requital. All the above is orthodox Moslem doctrine, which utterly ignores the dictum "ex nihilo nihil fit;" and which would look upon Creation by Law (Darwinism) as opposed to Creation by miracle (e.g. the Mosaic cosmogony) as rank blasphemy. On the other hand the Eternity of Matter and its transcendental essence are tenets held by a host of Gnostics, philosophers and Eastern Agnostics.