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to the Imaum-baurahs ; assemblies are held in many private houses, 
and other places, where the martyrdom of the Imaums is recited 
in verse or prose ; and parties of the mourners, inflamed either by 
those readings, or by the working of their own imaginations, parade 
the streets with the most frantic demonstrations of grief, and being 
for the most part armed, it is often dangerous to meet them under 
the influence of their religious frenzy. 
Portable tombs or coffins richly ornamented with gilding and 
with various standards, indicating the field of battle, are also placed 
in the Imaum-baurah during the term of mourning,, and are car- 
ried in procession on the morning of the tenth day to some spot at 
a distance, where, in imitation of the sepulture of the Imaums^ 
flowers taken from these coffins are deposited in the ground, and 
this closes the mourning. 
The Imaum-baurahs are of no determinate form or size ; that at 
Lucknow is magnificent and extensive. The principal hall is about 
one hundred and seventy feet in length, by about sixty in breadth; 
and in the Mohurrum, the late Nawaub Vizier Assof-ud^Dowlah used 
to suspend lustres in rows, as close as their size would admit, the 
whole length of the chamber. There is behind it another chamber 
of equal length, but narrower; and at each end is a chamber about 
sixty feet square, surmounted by an elegant dome; and these con- 
stitute the body of the Imaum baurah, which is the farthest back in 
the building. The buildings in front are facades, with gateways 
leading to the principal building. The mosque on the right side, of 
which a representation is given in one of Mr. Salt's larger views, 
belongs to and is connected with the Imaum-baurah, although such 
buildings do not require that mosques should be attached to them. 
