Note 335 — JULNAR THE SEA-BORN AND HER SON KING BADR BASIM OF PERSIA.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
This was for sprinkling him, but the texts omit that operation. Arabic has distinct terms for various forms of metamorphosis. “Naskh” is change from a lower to a higher, as beast to man; “Maskh” (the common expression) is the reverse; “Raskh” is from animate to inanimate (man to stone) and “Faskh” is absolute wasting away to corruption.