[263] It was from time immemorial to our days the practice of the Asiatics to refer the common affairs of life to the stars, to which they attribute a constant and powerful influence over the nether world. Thus Húmaiun the son of Baber, emperor of India (see the History of Ferishta, translated by general John Briggs, vol. II, p. 71) “caused seven halls of audience to be built, in which he received persons according to their rank. The first, called the palace of the Moon, was set apart for ambassadors, messengers and travellers. In the second, called the palace of _Utarid_ (Venus), civil officers, and persons of that description, were received; and there were five other palaces for the remaining five planets. In each of these buildings he gave public audience, according to the planet of the day. The furniture and paintings of each, as also the dresses of the household attendants, bore some symbol emblematical of the planet. In each of these palaces he transacted business one day in the week.”――A. T. [264] Gladwin has وساتير _timar Vasátir_, the manuscript of Oude ر دسيتير _tímár dasyátir_, the edition of Calcutta ار دساتير, _tímsár dasatir_, which is the right reading, as the word “_timsar_” is explained in the index of obsolete or little known terms by these words: لمهٔ تعظيم بمعنی “a word expressing respect.”――A. T. [265] Cicacole, a town in the northern districts of the Coromandel coast, anciently named Kalinga, the ancient capital of an extensive district of the same name, lat. 18° 21′ N., long. 83° 57′ E.――A. T. [266] The Muhammedans distinguish particularly two temples, or mosques: the first, the principal object of their veneration, is the _Masjed al Haram_, or “the Sacred mosque,” that is to say, the temple of Mecca, where is also the _Kâbah_, or “the Square-edifice,” built, as they say, by Abraham and his son Ismael. The second of the temples is the _Masjed al Nabí_, “the mosque of the Prophet,” who preached and is buried in it.――(_Herbelot._)――A. T. [267] Ali, the son of _Abu Taleb_, the cousin and son in law of Muhammed. Ali was assassinated in the mosque of Kufa, and buried near this town, in the province of Irak, the Babylonian, on the right bank of the Euphrates.――A. T. [268] Kerbela is a district of Irak, the Babylonian, or of Chaldæa, not far from Kufa, and west of the town called Kaser Ben Hóbeirah. It is famous on account of the death and sepulchre of Hóssáin, the son of Ali, who was killed there, fighting against the troops of Yezid, son of Moavia, who disputed the khalifat with him.――A. T. [269] Músa was the seventh of the twelve Imams whom the Shiites revere. He was born in the year of the Hegira 128 (745 A. D.), and died in 183 (799 A. D.).――A. T.