Storia do Mogor 203.3.4

203.3.4

The ladies respond then to all the praises, which the singing-women never fail to shower on them, by full trays of gold and silver coin which they throw to them. All the matrons receive sarapas (robes) and jewels, and their allowances are increased. The great ladies are well received upon their arrival ; they also obtain costly sarapas (robes) and jewels. At the time when they say good-bye their hands are filled with kichari, which is, in its literal meaning, a mixed dish made up of several kinds of vegetables. As to this, it must be remarked that the kichari of these queens and princes is not of that sort, but, on the contrary, a mixture of gold and silver coin, with all kinds of precious stones and pearls, large and small. The day when a prince or a princess is born they give the infant a string of yellow silk with a knot in it, which is a mark of the day he came into the world. The next year, on the same day, they make another knot, and a feast is held as before, and thus they continue to the end of life. Upon the very day of birth they place in a [n] small bag the navel-string which has been severed by a thread, and for forty days the whole is left under the prince's pillow along with certain superstitious writings. At the end of the forty days the bag is hung round the child's neck, and this is never omitted in the Mogul country. The following is the manner in which the Mogul's vassals address him, or, rather, the titles that they give to him, with their meaning :