295 ([return])
[ i.e., they bound kerchiefs stained blue or almost black round their brows. In modern days Fellah women stain their veils (face and head), kerchiefs and shirts with indigo; and some colour their forearms to the elbow.]
296 ([return])
[ Here again and in the following adventure we have "Khudadad and his Brothers." Suppl. vol. iii. 209-304.]
297 ([return])
[ In sign of despair. See vol. i. 298.]
298 ([return])
[ In text "Kalamátu 'llah" = the Koran: and the quotation is from chapt. cxiii. 5. For the "Two Refuge-takings" (Al-Mu'awizzatáni), see vol. iii. 222.]
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[ i.e., caused his brothers to recover life. [I read: Allazí 'amaltu fí-him natíjah yujázúní bi-Ziddi-há = Those to whom I did a good turn, requite me with the contrary thereof. Allazí, originally the masc. Sing. is in this MS. vulgarly, like its still more vulgar later contraction, "illí," used for both genders and the three numbers.?St.]