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if he eat iriore than enough), talketh of matters which 

 reason may on no wise represent." 



Kayf. The sensation is delightful. Sonnini says: 

 "The Arabs give the name Kayf to the voluptuous 

 relaxation, the delicious stupor produced by smoking of 

 hemp." Burton says, "I have smoked it and eaten it 

 for months without other effect than a greatly increased 

 appetite and a little drowsiness." Footnote, Vol. XV. 

 p. 196. 



Ganjah or Gunjah. This term, prominent in East 

 Indian lore, is not found in Burton's Arabian trans- 

 lations, but it appears frequently in Dymock's Pharma- 

 cographia Indica, from which we extract as follows, 

 pp. 320-322: 



"The intoxicating properties which the plant pos- 

 sesses in its Eastern home appear not to have been dis- 

 covered until a more recent date, but in the fifth chapter 

 of Menu, Brahmins are prohibited from using it, and in 

 the sacred books of the Parsis the use of Bana for the 

 purpose of procuring abortion is forbidden. In Hindu 

 mythology the hemp plant is said to have sprung from 

 the amrita produced whilst the gods were churning the 

 ocean with Mount Mandara. It is called in Sanskrit 

 Vijaya, 'giving success,' and the favorite drink of 

 Indra is said to be prepared from it. On festive oc- 

 casions, in most parts of India, large quantities are con- 

 sumed by almost all classes of Hindus. The Brahmins 

 sell Sherbet prepared with Bhang at the temples, and 

 religious mendicants collect together and smoke Ganja. 

 Shops for the sale of preparations of hemp are to be 

 found in every town, and are much resorted to by the 

 idle and vicious. Hemp is also used medicinally; in 

 the Raja Nirghanta its synonyms are names which mean 



