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Abulghazi, be ended by winning the martyr's crown. “We belong to God, and we shall return to him."10
Minhaj-i-Saraj reports a strange story that on the capture of Khuârezm the women were separated from the men. Having selected such of the former as they wanted, the rest were divided into two bodies and stripped naked, the Mongols standing round withdrawn swords, told them they heard the women of the place were good pagilists, and they made them attack each other with their clenched fists during a whole watch, when they fell on them with their swords and martyred them. "The Almighty reward them," ejaculates our author."
After the capture of Khgarezm, the three princes secured Kat, Feraber, Dargan, Zamak-
sher and Great and Little Urgenj," and then rejoined their father. This campaign against Khuarezm is referred to in the baldest fashion in the Chinese notices. The Yuan-ch'ao-pi-shi says Jochi, Chaadai, and Ogidai received orders to cross the Amui" and attack the city of Urungichi." When they had reached the city, they sent to Chinghiz to ask who shonld take the supreme command. He ordered Ogidai to take it." " The Yuan-shi merely says "the princes Ju-chi, Ch'â-ho-tai, and Wok'no-t'ai, captured the city of Yu-lung-gie-chi" and other places." In the Huang-yuan we read that in the autumn of 1221 Chinghiz Khan sent his eldest, second and third sons with the right flank of the army to attack Yü-lung-kie-che" and Bu-jin-ye-ha-da." Chinghiz's third son was entrusted with the chief command.
FOLKLORE IN SOUTHERN INDIA.
BY S. M. NÅTEŚA ŚÅSTRI PAŅDIT. II.-WEY BRĪHMANS CANNOT EAT IN THE went to a tank to perform his Sandhya vandaDARE.
na or evening prayers. It swarmed with Among Hindús, especially among Brahmane crocodiles. People never went near it. The of the Madras Presidency-and I now see son-in-law, being quite new to the village, from personal observation that it is the same entered the tank without knowing anything in the Bombay Presidency also—there is a cus- of the danger. Unfortunately there was none tom, while taking their meals, of leaving their near to warn him. He had set his foot in food uneaten when it so happens that from any the water when a crocodile caught him by the cause the light is blown out. Of course this leg and began to drag him. That very night could occur only in the night-time. Such was fixed for his naptials and a crocodile was mishaps now-a-days take place only in poor fa- taking him to feast on his flesh. He was exmilies sitting down to supper with a single light. tremely vexed at the calamity, and said humbly Hence the following story told as the origin of to his enemy, "My friend crocodile! Listen to this custom is being forgotten. It runs as my words first and then decide for yourself. follows:
A wife, the only daughter of an old Brahman In a certain village there lived a Brahman is waiting for me to-night. If you eat me who had an only daughter. She was deeply now you take me away without my seeing her, read in Sanskrit and was of the most charm- my father-in-law and other relatives. Their ing beauty. He procured a husband for her hearts may break at the news of my death as deeply read as herself. The betrothal had on the very day of the wedding. They may already taken place. Just after the girl at- all ourse you. If, on the contrary, you leave tained her puberty a day was appointed for me now, I shall go home, speak to my wife and her nuptials; and the muhurtta or anspicious others about the sad calamity that has come time was fixed at the 10th ghatiká of that over me, and after embracing and taking leave night. On that very evening the son-in-law of her will come to you for your supper at the
to Urgenj.
10 Koran, Surs, 2, verse 181; Abulghazi, ed. Desmai. sons, pp. 119 and 120; Erdmann, p. 412. 11 Tabakat--Nasiri, pp. 1100, 1101. 1 De la Croix, p. 256. 1 , e. the Amui Daria. *1... Urgenj.
+ Op. cit. p. 147. * 1. e. Urgenj.
" Bretschneider, Notices, etc. p. 61. . Probably, says Dr. Bretschneider, misspelt name. 10 The Yuan-hi-lei-pen says that the three princes captured Yulong and Kiesbi, thus making two names out of Urgenj.-Gaubil, p. 38; id. 66.
