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[ "Jám-i-Jamshíd" is a well worn commonplace in Moslem folk-lore; but commentators cannnot agree whether "Jám" be = a mirror or a cup. In the latter sense it would represent the Cyathomantic cup of the Patriarch Joseph and the symbolic bowl of Nestor. Jamshíd may be translated either Jam the Bright or the Cup of the Sun: this ancient King is Solomon of the grand old Guebres.]
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[ This passage may have suggested to Walter Scott one of his descriptions in "The Monastery.">[
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[ In the text "Lájawardí," for which see vols. iii. 33, and ix. 190.]
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[ In Galland and the H. V. "Prince Husayn's.">[
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[ This is the "Gandharba-lagana" (fairy wedding) of the Hindus; a marriage which lacked only the normal ceremonies. For the Gandharbas = heavenly choristers see Moor's "Hindú Pantheon," p. 237, etc.]