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