Note 24 — HISTORY OF KHWAJAH HASAN AL-HABBAL.[21]

The Pers. “Gil-i-sar-shúl” (= head-washing clay), the Sindi “Met,” and the Arab. “Tafl,” a kind of clay much used in Persia, Afghanistan, Sind, etc. Galland turns it into terre à decrasser and his English translators into “scouring sand which women use in baths.” This argillaceous earth mixed with mustard oil is locally used for clay and when rose-leaves and perfumes are used, it makes a tolerable wash-ball. See “Scinde or The Unhappy Valley,” i. 31.