نل नल nal : نل
नल nal S s. m. 1. A tube,
spout, joint of
bamboo or other
hollow wood. 2. The
bamboo which
fowlers use to
entangle game by
applying birdlime to the top of it. نل
چلانا nal-chalānā, Setting the
bamboos in
motion, denotes a ma- gical
practice adopted for the
discovery of
theft. Two
pieces of split
bamboo, of equal
lengths, are
applied to one
another side by side, and held by two men, one at each end. It is said that any
persons taken at
random may be em-
ployed for this
purpose. Then the
magician pronounces certain incantations, the
efficacy of which is
pretended to be such, that the bam- boos
spontaneously move
towards the place where the thief or the
stolen goods are, and drag the men along with them. نل در نل nal dar nal, One tube
within another. 3. Name of a king, and hero of
several poetical works fa- mous among the
Hindūs.