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Updated: May 29, 2025
Another game was got up at the other end of the table played by the two Mashas, Varvarushka, and the sewing-maid Marfa Ptrovna, who was waked on purpose to play "kings," and whose face looked cross and sleepy. While they were playing they talked of men, and of how difficult it was to get a good husband nowadays, and which state was to be preferred that of an old maid or a widow.
Ma'jun is the extract from the intoxicating plant called charas or bhang, a species of hemp; it is mixed with sugar and spices to render it palatable. The inebriation it produces fills the imagination with agreeable visions, and the effects are different from those of wine or spirits. Six mashas amount to nearly a quarter of an ounce; a sicca rupee weighs eleven mashas.
He then, smiling, said, 'Amuse yourself by walking about in this garden, and eat whatever fruits you like. He gave me a china pot filled with ma'jun, and added, 'Take without fail six mashas from this pot every morning, fasting. Saying this, he went away, and I followed strictly his prescription.
All Asiatic princes, like others nearer home, have spies, called "reporters of intelligence," who inform themselves of what passes in public. They are, as a matter of course, the pest of society, and generally corrupt. A miskal is four and a half mashas; our ounce contains twenty-four mashas. So the ruby weighed more than half an ounce. The word raja is the Hindu term for a prince or sovereign.
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