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This he calls sarserin, and in Hindu sarasana means to creep along like a snake. Supposing that the Hindu word for rice, shali, could hardly have been lost, I asked a Gipsy if he knew it, and he at once replied, "Shali giv is small grain-corn, werry little grainuses indeed." Shalita in Hindustani is a canvas sack in which a tent is carried.
Some of the Zen even became iconoclastic as a result of their endeavor to recognise the Buddha in themselves rather than through images and symbolism. We find Tankawosho breaking up a wooden statue of Buddha on a wintry day to make a fire. "What sacrilege!" said the horror-stricken bystander. "I wish to get the Shali out of the ashes," calmly rejoined the Zen.
"But you certainly will not get Shali from this image!" was the angry retort, to which Tanka replied, "If I do not, this is certainly not a Buddha and I am committing no sacrilege." Then he turned to warm himself over the kindling fire. A special contribution of Zen to Eastern thought was its recognition of the mundane as of equal importance with the spiritual.
Mahadeva Buddha The Simurgh The Pintni or Mermaid The Nag or Blind-Worm Nagari and Niggering The Nile Nats and Nautches, Naubat and Nobbet A Puncher Pitch, Piller and Pivlibeebee Quod Kishmet or Destiny The Koran in England "Sass" Sherengro Sarserin Shali or Rice The Shaster in England The Evil Eye Sikhs Stan, Hindostan, Iranistan The true origin of Slang Tat, the Essence of Being Bahar and Bar The Origin of the Words Rom and Romni.
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