378 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
ideas cannot be reconstructed. Something is said about ‘ the 
language of those who call ‘Ali a God’ ( Jbha vt le ob) 
Further there are a few words about J'ufayliyan (parasites, 
uninvited guests) ; also about Sufis, and even Jews ( .fo,e> sie, 
the form used in Turkestan). 
The vocabulary which follows this is arranged probably 
under subjects. But the principle of classification was not 
followed strictly. The part of the vocabulary which still exists, 
contains some 400 expressions, but only about one hundred o 
them are legible. 
The general nature of the vocabulary suggests that: (1) it 
was intended to be perused in a country with a non-Arabic 
speaking population ; (2) the community which perused it was 
an organisation with pronounced religious or Sufic interests ; 
and (3) judging from the equivalents for proper names, was 
strictly Shi‘itic in its tendencies. 
Two names casually found may be of some use in future 
research as to the identity of the community. They are: Abu- 
Sa‘d (or Abu Sa‘id) with the code-surname ‘ishg (‘love’), and 
Abi’l-Qasim (Khalifa, ‘ the lieutenant,’ a term still much 
used by Persian darwishes and sectarians, who apply it to one 
of the various degrees of priests taking part in their secret rites). 
The selection of such seemingly unsuitable matters for a 
collection of treatises which could appeal only to the most 
educated and intellectual men of the time, may most probably 
be explained by its utility for controversial purposes. 
THE VocABULARY. 
The groups into which the vocabulary may be dissected 
are mentioned in the beginning of this paper and need not 
repeated. As it is impossible to arrive at a precise conclusion 
only their meaning in English and such references as are ne- 
cessary. 
ery few generalisations can be suggested on examination 
of the philological structure of the code. The suffixes used for 
modifications of words of familiar origin are the same as those 
nowadays in common use amongst Darwishes and G ypsies,—1.€. 
chiefly -@, -7, and the Persian diminutive suffixes -ak and -cha. 
There is a prefix of an obscure nature, b-r or p-r ( ps which 
seems to be used equally for privative as well as for possessivé 
formations. 
The ordinary Gypsy and Darwish device of to-day of using 
an Arabic word for a simple and common idea which is ordi- 
narily expressed by a Persian term, is very frequent here. 


