[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Arabic](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar) › [Travel and sea narratives](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla) › [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta) › [The Travels of Ibn Batuta](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee) › 17.2.2 # تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 17.2.2 The Travels of Ibn Batūta 17.2.2 - **Language:** English ### [17.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.2.2) for they will eat swine’s flesh after the manner of the Hindoos and Christians, as well as beef, as the Mohammedans and others do. They will also kill and eat a man ...... and will drink wine like the Guebres. There are too among them, those who will mix their urine and dung together, which they will then pass through a cloth and drink. The person who does this, they say, will be able to perform great feats, and to know wonderful things. Such persons they term Anila. In the belief of this people, although they hold all to be derived from Kurkhanat, and that those of every religion may finally be united with Kurk, still they proceed in the path of one of those persons, who have been united by one or other of the twelve links of Jogeeism. In their belief it is considered of great importance to be able to hold the breath; just as it is among the Parsees of Adhar Hoshenk: for the kings among them would constantly hold their breath When one draws (his breath), he will picture the moon towards the left, i. e. he will consider the moon’s disk as visible on his left side, and that of the sun on his right. Some of the Sanas! in each of the seven stages, will thus picture one or other of the planets, which, with the Hindoos, exceeds every other species of worship or alms; - [Previous: 17.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.2.1) - [Next: 17.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.2.3) - [Up: 17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.2.2) · Pramāṇa