Note 118 — THE TWO SISTERS WHO ENVIED THEIR CADETTE.[98]
Richard Francis Burton translation
Another title of the Shah, making him quasi-divine, at any rate the nearest to the Almighty, like the Czar and the Emperor of China. Hence the subjects bow to him with the body at right angles as David did to Saul (1 Sam. xxiv. 8) or fall upon the face like Joshua (v. 14).