, and carrying the Evangel to those who have
never heard of it, but they are drawing nations together in bonds of
service and sympathy, and diminishing the danger of racial conflict
and devastating war.

GLOSSARY OF WORDS NOT GENERALLY USED OUTSIDE INDIA

A.

Ahl-el-kitab = the people of the Book: a term applied by Muhammadans to
Jews, and Christians whose Scriptures they accept as the Word of God.

B.

Banaprastha = the third stage of the life of a devout Hindu, when he
retires from trade or office, and lives in some forest or jungle.

Ber = a tree, very common in Afghanistan--Zisyphus jujuba and
Z. vulgaris. Its fruit is largely eaten by the people.

Bhagti = devotion, faith. The Hindus contrast salvation by bhagti
to that by karma, or works. Chaitanza and others were the apostles
of bhagti.

Bhasha = the script in which the Hindi language is usually written;
the language itself.

Brahmachari = the first stage of the life of a devout Hindu, when he
is a celibate student under some teacher or guru.

C.

Chadar = a cotton or woollen shawl, used as a wrap in the day and a
sheet by night.

Chapati = flat cakes of unleavened bread, cooked over a tauwa, or
flat piece of iron.

Charpar = "the four-legged," the plain native wooden bedstead.

Chauk = the room which the headman of a village sets apart for the
use of the public. Village business and gossip is carried on here,
and travellers accommodated.

Chigah = an alarm, sounded by beating a drum in a village, for the
arm-bearing population to come out in pursuit of raiders or robbers.

Chilam = the Afghan term for the Indian hookah, or hubble-bubble
pipe. The kind used in Afghanistan is simpler in construction, and
has a shorter tube.

D.

Daktar = the native corruption of "doctor."

Dharmsala = a Hindu temple and rest-house for travellers, these two
institutions being almost invariably combined.

Dilaq = the patchwork cloak which is characteristic of the Muhammadan
faqir.

Dum = the village barber and musician, these two offices being usually
combined; he also does most of the minor surgery of the village.

Dumba = the fat-tailed Afghan sheep.

F.

Fatwa = a religious decree, promulgated by a court of Mullahs, or by
one Mullah of authority.

Feringi = the name universally accorded in Afghanistan to Europeans
(the Franks). In British India it has a prejudicial signification,
but not so in Afghanistan.

G.

Ghaza =