Note 467 — KING SHAH BAKHT AND HIS WAZIR AL-RAHWAN.[295] (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
For Munkar and Nakir, the Interrogating Angels, see vol. v. 111. According to Al-Mas’udi (chapt. xxxi.) these names were given by the Egyptians to the thirteenth and fourteenth cubits marked on the Nilometer which, in his day, was expected to shew seventeen.