Then said Dacian to him: I see well thy fraud and thy barat, thou wilt make the earth to swallow me, like as thou hast the temple and my gods.

It might have been worse, if I had staid at college a year or two longer, or if I had been elevated to a place in the Triennial Catalogue,thus: PAULUS POTTER, LL.D., S.T.D.; Barat. V. Gubernator, Lit. Hum.

They lived in such peace and plenty, that in their homes the day was a festival, and the night was a shabi barat .

The illuminations within were magnificent; on every side, gerandoles, in the shape of cypresses, and various kinds of lights in variegated lamps were lighted up; even the shabi barat, with all its moonlight and its illuminations, would appear dark

I asked the female servant [who came with me] "there is here such gay splendour in the scene of the day, and such magnificence in that of the night, that the day may very justly be called 'Id, and the night shabi barat; moreover, a king who possessed the whole world could not exhibit greater splendour and magnificence.

The shabi barat is a Mahometan festival which happens on the full moon of the month of Sha'ban; illuminations are made at night, and fire-works displayed; prayers are said for the repose of the dead, and offerings of sweetmeats and viands made to their manes.

A luminous night-scene is therefore compared to the shabi barat.

Shevrat is a Hindu festival, which corresponds nearly with the Mahometan shabi barat.