تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 10.12.3

10.12.3

the tank and plunged into it, stripped off the clothes and ornaments they had on and gave them away as alms. Each of them was brought an unsewn garment of coarse cotton, and she tied part of it around her waist and part over her head and shoulders. The fires had been lit near that tank in a low-lying spot, and rawghan kunjut, that is, sesame oil, had been poured on them, which increased their blaze. There were about fifteen men there holding bundles of thin firewood, and with them about ten holding large logs, and the drummers and trumpeters stood waiting for the woman to come. The fire had been screened off by a sheet held by the men in their hands, so that the sight of it should not frighten her. I saw one of them, when she reached that sheet, pull it violently from the men's hands and say to them: