Note 68 — The Sixteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession

Mautī might mean “dead,” but probably the word means “Pearl,” and was the title assumed by a tribe or family among the Sannyāsīs. See infra. The statement that this order put themselves into the figure of a cross doubtless means that they belong to the Urdu bāhū (arms-aloft) sect—i.e., the sect who raise their arms above their heads, in the figure of a cross. In Tavernier, II. 378, of ed. of 1676, this is the 8th posture of ascetics, and at that page and at 376 there are figures of such ascetics. The I.O. MSS. have salab, “mourning,” instead of ṣalb. ↑