Note 338 — THE TALE OF THE KAZI AND THE BHANG-EATER.[224] (continued 3)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The “Janázah,” or bier, is often made of planks loosely nailed or pegged together into a stretcher or platform, and it would be easy to thrust a skewer between the joints. I may remind the reader that “Janázah” = a bier with a corpse thereon (vol. ii. 46), whereas the “Sarír” is the same when unburdened, and the “Na’ash” is a box like our coffin, but open at the tip.