39. en = incantation. Br. 10857 = šiptu. Georg. en-a = tongue, word; Laz. nen-a = tongue, word; Min. nin-a = tongue, word; Sv. nin = tongue, word.

The Rashaḥāt is a Persian MS. dealing with the Naqshbandī Khwājās of Central Asia, and specially with the Samārkand saint Naṣīru-d-dīn 'Ubaid Ullah, commonly known by the epithets ḥaẓrat Īshān and Khwāja Aḥrār. The work is to some extent an introduction to Mr. Shaw's paper on the Khwājās which Mr. Ney Elias published in a Supplement to the JASB. for 1897. That paper treats of a much later period in the history of the Khwājās than does the Rashaḥāt, but they agree in tracing their descent from Imām J'afir Ṣādiq and from Ḥusain the grandson of Muḥammad.

The Ḥisba jurisdiction, which is the subject of the twentieth and concluding chapter of Māwardi's work, is akin to those dealing with the Ḳaḍi and with the Maẓālim tribunal; these have been discussed in the Journal (1910, p. 761, and 1911, p. 635). In the following pages an attempt is made to give, in an abridged form, the substance of the Ḥisba chapter (ed. Enger, Bonn, 1853, pp. 404–31), to be followed by some observations on the working of the rules there laid down, and on their effect in practice.

9. Duḥ-(-ś-)-śastiḥ (-r asmākaṃ) śravāṅsi mṛdnāt svaḥ (saḥ, sa) jīvātoḥ, (tasya) śāsanaiḥ(-s), sva-śaṅsanaiḥ, kratum;

(b) apa mama *iṣṭim (?) 2 *iṣṭi-(?)-(-dravṇaḥ-(-o-)-vedatām)(apa-)yaṃtā((-ā-)asti(-y), āsīt, kila,(-ā-) asmākaṃ. draviṇaḥ(-o) vedam apayayāma), bhrājasvatīṃ (?) satyām *iṣṭim ((?) aiśya*-raivatya-vedatāṃ) vasoḥ(-or) mánasaḥ(-a), (kila (-ar-) ṛtāvanaḥ (-no vasumanasvataḥ(-s))),

(c) téna (-o-) ukténa manyoḥ, (-or) ātmanaḥ(-s) mama tubhyaṃ, súmedhaḥ, (-a) ṛtāya ca, yuṣmabhyaṃ, yuvābhyāṃ (?), garhe.

In recurring, briefly, to the consideration of this expression we may take with us the fact that in the Sārnāth inscription the verb vivāsāy- has been shown to bear the meaning “cause to dwell away”, to dwell, that is, in a place which is anāvāsa, “not a residence,” in the particular case “not a residence of a community of monks”.