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Updated: May 9, 2025
A khil'at or honorary dress is generally bestowed on a person when he is appointed to a new situation. Literally, "who could hit a kauri suspended by a hair." The kauri is a small round shell used to denote the minutest denomination of money. In Bengal it is about the hundredth part of a paisa.
"She gave me another khil'at of dignity, and a title. I then went to the audience of the king, and presented my pesh-kash. For this reason, the king, the nobles, and the merchants were all well pleased with me, and the king showered many favours on me, and having given me a khil'at and a horse, he bestowed on me a title and a ja-gir, with other dignities and honours.
"'In three or four days, when he collects some money, the head priests give him a khil'at on the part of the great idol, and dismiss him; having thus become rich, he goes away, and no one knows who he was. Go thou also, and sit under that canvas, and hide well thy hands and face, and speak to no one.
The Fatiha is the opening chapter of the Kur,an, which, being much read and repeated, denotes a short prayer or benediction in general. This is the general mode of investiture in Hindustan to offices, places, &c.; to which a khil'at, or honorary dress, is added. That part of a dwelling where male company are received.
Called warku-l-khiyal; it is made from the leaves of the charas, a species of hemp; it is a common inebriating beverage in India; the different preparations of it is called ganja, bhang, &c. Literally a "weighty khil'at," owing to the quantity of embroidery on it. The perfection of these oriental dresses is, to be so stiff as to stand on the floor unsupported.
A humble deportment when addressing superiors in India; and through complaisance, used sometimes to equals. An act of ceremony ever observed amongst the well-bred in India, when a visitor takes leave. The moment they are introduced, it is a hint to the visitor to take leave. The khil'at is a dress of honour, in general a rich one, presented by superiors to inferiors.
She asked me, 'Is there now anything else left to be done. I replied, that through her humanity I was quite recovered. The princess then gave me a rich khil'at and a large sum of money, as she had promised; yea, she even gave me as much more, and then dismissed me.
In this scene of felicity when the morning dawned, an uproar was raised in the town that the princess had disappeared. Those guards received orders not to let an ant pass without the royal permission; and that whoever would bring any intelligence of the princess should receive a khil'at and a thousand pieces of gold as a present. The bawds roamed through the whole city and entered every house.
I then ordered them to conduct the wazirzadi to the seraglio, and to take the wazir out of prison, bathe him in the bath, dress him in the khil'at of restoration to favour, and bring him quickly before me. When the wazir arrived, I went to the end of the farsh to receive him, and conceiving him my superior, I embraced him, and bestowed on him anew the writing case of the wazirship.
All the beauties we have heard of, as peculiar to Padmini females, were centred in her. I cohabited with her without ceremony, and experienced great delight. In the morning, after having bathed, I waited on the king; he bestowed on me the khil'at of marriage, and ordered that I should always attend his levee; at last, after some days, I became one of his majesty's counsellors.
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