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5 Homan—Mon.
6 Next in degree is the ziarat of Mazub Bdba, by tribe a Kukkezai
7 from flazarnao, and a murid or disciple of Murzadwali, by whose
8 reflected light he shines. His grave is situated about 3 miles below
9 Parchao, on the left bank of the Kdbul river, and is a walled enclosure
10 covered with flags and votive offerings. The descendants of Mazub
11 Bdba hold the villages of Reiua and Parchao as a gift from the
12 Molnnands. Both they and the descendants of Murzadwali collect
13 offerings from the tribes, generally two or three seers of grain from
14 every plough at harvest, and have partitioned off the clans among
15 themselves, a clan or part of a clan being allotted to each family of
16 Midns for their support. Minor zid ra ts are innumerable; wherever
17 f a k ir s or Midns have died, or a deed of peculiar atrocity has invested
18 the victim with the sympathy of the people, a flag is erected and a
19 line of stones is ranged facing west, for the traveller to pray.
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21 There is also the Srikn zia ra t at Lfilpura.
22 On the very summit of Ilazai and of Tartara are two of those curious
23 nameless zid ra ts believed to be the resting-places of brothers; other
24 brothers are said to lie buried on the Chingai hill near Abazai, at
25 Panjpir in Yusafzai, and on the Hasan Abddl hill. According to
26 another version these brothers are the children of Bdba Wali at
27 Kandabdr; doubtless in these isolated shrines on inaccessible hill-tops
28 we find relics of some former creed which has been adapted to the
29 popular zia ra t worship of modern Muhammadans.
30 There is no colony of Sayyids in the Molimand country ■ bill descend
31 ants of the well-known Midns of Papin iu the Sufed Koh are settled
32 at Chaknewar and Smutao near Ldlpura.
33 Balots Khdn (of Ldlpma), one of the Khdns, is believed to have
34 struck water out of a rock with his staff on the hill near Tora Tigga,
35 where an old well (Buddhist most likely) is known as Balots Khdn’s
36 kuhai.
37 fhe Karmu-nmasi sept of the Sangu Khel are hereditary guardians
38 of the shinkai,*. brass kettle-d. um said to be only beaten on grave
39 occasions. It is also an oracle, being consulted before a foray, when
40 it sounds of itself it the raid is to L© successful,
41 M oman , - in , a true believer, orthodox Muhammadan, a Muhammadan
42 weaver. Panjabi Dicty., p. 758.
43 M o M i , a Hindu Kamboh clan (agricultural) found in Montgomery.
44 next.
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47 M omyi , a Kamboh clan (agricultural) found in Amritsar.
48 See
49 See foregoing.
50 M on .— All over Ladakh are to be found vestiges of old forts, which are
51 commonly attributed by the natives to the time of the ‘ M on’ r d i
52 J his same word m o n is, Sir James Lvall hplimmri
53 used by the Bhots or Tibetans aa a general name for the Hindu races
54 in Kulu or elsewhere, and the * Mon r a j ’ is generally understood to
55 have come from the south : but this is only matter of an obscure
56 tradition, picked up from one or two Tibetans, and if there is any
57 “ government.