ABSTRACT
He [Scacatai] was seated on a couch with a guitar [dtharula] in his hand and his wife beside him. I was really under the impression that she had amputated the bridge of her nose so as to be more snubnosed, for she had no trace of a nose there, and she had smeared that spot and her eyebrows as well with some black ointment, which to us looked thoroughly dreadful. 3
1 Reading vernigal for the veringal of the text, as also below, p. 105: see Pelliot, Recherches, p. 100.
