Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 1) (London, 1832)

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as sweetmeats, dried fruits, garlands of sweet
jasmine, imitative beds of flowers, composed
of uberuck: in some of the flowers, fireworks
were concealed, to be let off in the quadrangle.
An imitative tomb on a bier, is also paraded,
together with the palkie and chundole of silver,
which are the covered conveyances for females
of the royal family, or such of the nobility as
are privileged by grants from the crown; all
other females use the covered palkie, mahanah,
dhollee, and the rutt. Several bands of music
follow, and torches out of number. The ele-
phants, camels, cavalry, &c, are left in the
open space, outside the gateway—the gentle-
men, dismounting, enter with Dhull Dhull and
the trays of Mayndhie.

I trembled for the probable destruction of
the brilliant ornaments in the Emaum-baarah,
when I heard the noble animal was to make
the circuit round the Tazia. Dhull Dhull,
being led in, went up the steps with little
difficulty; and to my astonishment, the gentle
creature paced the tesselated floor, in very
slow time, without once slipping, or seeming