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NOTE XXIV. CERTAIN ASTROLOGICAL TERMS l 131<br />
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" Q. ' What are khaby and damir ? '<br />
" '<br />
A. Khaby is fjiat which is hidden in the fist; and dami? is that<br />
,<br />
'one should think of something and [that the operator should] find if,<br />
out '<br />
by questioning.' , .<br />
" Herein are astrologers speedily put to shame, and their mistakes<br />
are more frequent than tnefr successes."<br />
? . Sahmu's-Sa t l<br />
ddat and Sahmu* l-Ghayb<br />
A full explanation of these terms, which I have translated " Part of<br />
Fortune " and " Part of the Unseen," is givei! in vol. i of the Dictionary<br />
of the Technical Terms used in the Sciences 1<br />
of the Musalmdns , pp. 698-9.<br />
After denning the pronunciation and ordinary meaning ("arrow") of<br />
sahm, and its' special sense in Geomancy and Geometry, the article<br />
proceeds :<br />
"<br />
With astronomers the term sahm means a definite portion of the<br />
zodiacal "heaven. According to them, these 'Parts' (sahm-ha) are many,<br />
e.g. the '<br />
Part of Fortune '<br />
(or '<br />
Happiness '<br />
:<br />
Safymu's-Sa'ddat), also<br />
Called by them the '<br />
'<br />
Part of the Moon and the ;<br />
'<br />
'<br />
Part of the Unseen<br />
\Sahmii l-Ghayb\ the 'Part of Days' (Sahmti'l-Ayydm), the 'Part of<br />
Men-servants and Maid-servants '<br />
(Sahm-i-Ghuldmdn wa Kanizakdri),<br />
and so forth. So by day they compute the '<br />
'<br />
Part of Happiness from<br />
the Sun to the degree of the Moon, and add to it (that is to the degrees<br />
between the Sun and the Moon) the degree of the Ascendant. Then<br />
from the Ascendant's total they subtract thirty each [for the Sign<br />
ofjths Ascendant and the adjoining Sign], and what remains will be the<br />
degree of the '<br />
position of the Part of Happiness.' And by night they<br />
compute from the degree of the Moon to the degree of the Sun, and<br />
add thereto the degree of the Ascendant.<br />
''Example. Ascendant 10 in Aries; the Sun 20 in Leo; the Moon<br />
L5 in Libra, leaving 40 [from the position of the Sun in Leo] to [the<br />
beginning of] Libra. [To this] we add the 15 [already] traversed 'by<br />
the Moon [in Libra], which gives us 55. To this we add the degree of<br />
the Ascendant, which gives us 65. Of these we give 30 to Aries and<br />
30 to Taurus, and the 5 remaining to Gemini. So the place of the<br />
'<br />
Part of HappinesS ',will be the fifth degree of Gemini."<br />
" As for the '<br />
Pisces Aries<br />
Aquarius<br />
Taurus<br />
Capricorn<br />
Gemini<br />
Sagittarius<br />
Cancer<br />
Scorpio<br />
Leo<br />
t Libra Virgo<br />
Part of the Unseen,' by day they it compute from the<br />
Moon and by night from the Sun, adding thereto the degree of the<br />
Ascendant, and subtracting thirty each from the Ascendant, as before;<br />
then what remains over is the place of the '<br />
Part of the Unseen.' "<br />
,<br />
Then follow directions on similar lines for calculating the other 'Parts,'<br />
viz. the '<br />
Part of<br />
'<br />
Days (Sahmu'l-Ayydm), the<br />
'<br />
Part of Men-servants<br />
1 Published in the Bibliotheca Indica, Calcutta, 1862. ,<br />
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