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132<br />
NOTES ON THE THIRD DISCOURSE<br />
and Maid-servants,' the '<br />
Par(> of Wealth and Friends '<br />
(Sahm-i-Mdl u<br />
Asdiqd\ the 'Marriage of Women' (Tazwij-i-Zafifin), and the 'Parts'<br />
of th Five Planets, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Venus.<br />
Kad-khudd a"nd Hayldj -*<br />
These terms are applied in Astrology to two indications of the length<br />
"the , Hayldj<br />
of life of the child. According to Abu Rayhan al-Binini 1<br />
is one of five things : first, the Master of the day- or night-shift (Sdhib-i-<br />
Nawbat-i-rtiz yd shaft):, secondly, the Moon by day and the Sun ''by<br />
night; thirdly, the Degree of the Ascendant; fourthly, the 'Part of<br />
Fortune '<br />
; fifthly, the House of the Conjunction or Opposition which<br />
shall have taken place before birth. One of these five things they call<br />
the Hayldj when it is conjoined with its own proper conditions described<br />
in books on Astrology, and the sum total they call Haydlij or Hayldjat.<br />
'"The KadrJ&udd ('Master of the House') is the star which dominates<br />
the place of he Hayldj in this sense, that it is the Lord of the<br />
Mansion wherein the Hayldj is actually situated, or the Lord of its<br />
exaltation (Sdhib-i-Sharaf}, or the Lord of some other of its Parts which<br />
stand in relation to that position.<br />
"<br />
If the Hayldj be one which has no Kad-khudd, then they leave it<br />
out and seek another of the five Haydlij which has one; and if none of<br />
them has a Kad-khudd, then the quality of being a Hayldj belongs to<br />
the Degree of the Ascendant.<br />
"Example of the Hayldj and Kad-khudd. If at the time of the, birth<br />
of the child (by day) the Moon be in 19 of Aries, then the Moon will<br />
be one of the five Haydlij (subject to the concurrence of the other<br />
proper conditions which are set forth in books of Astrology). Then, in<br />
this hypothetical example, the Kad-khudd will be the Sun, for the Sun<br />
dominates the place of the Hayldj, that is to say is the Lord of ifs<br />
altitude, for the exaltation (sharaf) of the Sun is in 19 of Aries. And if,<br />
in this hypothetical example, the degree of the Ascendant is in 19 of<br />
Aries, this degree of the Ascendant will be the Hayldj, and again the<br />
Sun will be the Kad-khudd, and so on.<br />
"So from the admixture and combination of the sum-total of'the<br />
*Hayldj and the Kad-khudd, they deduce (as they imagine) the duration<br />
of the child's life, its length or brevity, and its happiness or infelicity.<br />
"The derivation of the word Hayldj is unknown 2 ."<br />
Mr Ralph Shirley's observations are contained in three letters, dated<br />
May 22, May 31 and October 25, 1920, the first addressed to Professor<br />
Margoliouth, to whom my enquiries were originally addressed, the others<br />
to myself, the last one after reading the proofs' containing the anecdotes<br />
to which this note refers.<br />
1 These particulars were derived by Mirza' Muhammad from the British Museum<br />
MS. of the Tafhlm, Add. a<br />
7697, ff. 14.6* and i54 and from , Kushyar's Mujmalu'l-<br />
Usiil, Add. ff. 7490, 28-9.<br />
2<br />
It is said to be from the Greek v\iic6s; see Sedillot's Prolegomena, p. \tt of the<br />
text. See also Schefer's Chrestomathie Persane, vol. i, p.<br />
102 ad calc,