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² Compare for instance his description of Bengal muslin in one place : it was so fine and light that a hundred yards of this muslin could be wrapt round the head and one could still see the hair underneath. *Vide* Q.S., 32-3. In another place he compares the cloth of Deogiri with its richly coloured pieces to ‘tulips of the hills and roses of the garden’. In one place he compares the *Deogiri* cloth to a drop of water in fineness and transparence. A hundred yards of this cloth could pass through the eye of a needle and yet it was so strong that the needle could not pierce through it. A person, according to Khusrau, wearing this cloth looked like one uncovered, ‘only smeared with pure water’. The author thinks that *Deogiri* cloth was good enough to tempt a fairy and was incomparably better than silk and brocade. (*Vide* F.K., 11, K.K., 867 and Add. 25,807, folio 459.)