Note 89 — KING JALI’AD OF HIND AND HIS WAZIR SHIMAS; FOLLOWED BY THE HISTORY OF KING WIRD KHAN, SON OF KING JALI’AD, WITH HIS WOMEN AND WAZIRS.[55]

Arab. “Tuwuffiya,” lit. = was received (into the grace of God), an euphemistic and more polite term than “máta” = he died. The latter term is avoided by the Founder of Christianity; and our Spiritualists now say “passed away to a higher life,” a phrase embodying a theory which, to say the least, is “not proven.”