KHIZR, also written Khidjer and Khidr, is the Khaja Khizr of Muhammadans of Persia and India. The Hebrew notions about the identity of Phinheas and Elias have been adopted and expanded by the Muhammadans, who, also iden tify in some way with them their mysterious prophet Khidr or Khizr. Hermitages or chapels dedicated to Khidr and Elias appear to have been very numerous in Muhammadan countries, especially on hill-tops, and the oriental Christians and semi-Christians also always associate Elias with mountain tops. There seems to be scarcely a prominent peak in the Greek Archipelago with which the name of Elias is not connected. Throughout India,• Khizr is. a popular Muham madan saint. He is supposed to be immortal ; having on one occasion drank of the waters of im mortality, said to be situated in regions of darkness in a remote corner of the world, and some identify him with Enoch, some with Elijah. He is sup posed to perambulate the world, like the wandering Jew, and to have occasionally appeared to different people. He is always clad in green, as his name in Arabic indicates. The government of Kassan terminates, and that of Sulmania in Kurdistan commences, at the river Leilan ; near this is a small building, a ziyarat or place of pilgrimage, called the Makan of Kidder Elias, or resting place of the prophet Elias. The Mnhammadans believe that Elijah never died, and that he is still on earth, where he is to remain until the coming of Jesus. Christ. They call him .Khizr or ever green, on account of the everlasting life which he enjoys, and by which he is kept ever in a flourishing condition, in a paradise which, say they, might be taken for heaven itself. In refer
ence to this, a Turkish poet observes, 'Keep your selves from believing that this world is your home, your home is in heaven alone; strive therefore by the means of virtue to reach that home where Elias dwells, and where a place is prepared for you.' These notions of the Muhanunadans are derived from the Jews. Jesus himself was taken for Elias, re-appearing after nine centuries of concealment. The prophecy that Elijah should come before the great and terrible day of the Lord, has probably given rise to the notion that he had not yet completed his part on earth. In Northern India, on the Fridays of the month Shaban, along the banks of the Jumna and Ganges, Muhammadan women launch tiny boats on the rivers in his name. Heber (i. p. 166) mentions that the legends in Lower Bengal re garding Khizr are made up of different Rabbin ical fables concerniiag Eliezer, the servant of Abraham, and the prophet Elijah. He is by some supposed to be St. George of England, whom they call Khizr Elias. A legend is to the effect that he was vizir and general to Kai Kobad of Persia, and discovered and drank of the fountain of life, and will never die, but will await the last trump. —Ibn Batuta ; Burton's Scinde, ii. p. 249; Kurdistan, i. p. 52; Yule's Cathay.
K110 is a population of about 400,000 people occupying the delta of the Mei-kong, in Kambojia, between Siam and Cochin-China, the .remaining 100,000 of the population being Chinese, 'Cochin Chinese, Siamese, Malays, Portuguese, and mixed races.• See Kambojia.