He returned to find the cultivator 's cousin 's younger brother discussing the family law-suit in all its bearings with the cultivator and his wife and a few friends , while the lama dozed . After the evening meal some one passed him a water-pipe ; and Kim felt very much of a man as he pulled at the smooth coconut-shell , his legs spread abroad in the moonlight , his tongue clicking in remarks from time to time . His hosts were most polite ; for the cultivator 's wife had told them of his vision of the Red Bull , and of his probable descent from another world . Moreover , the lama was a great and venerable curiosity . The family priest , an old , tolerant Sarsut Brahmin , dropped in later , and naturally started a theological argument to impress the family . By creed , of course , they were all on their priest 's side , but the lama was the guest and the novelty . His gentle kindliness , and his impressive Chinese quotations , that sounded like spells , delighted them hugely ; and in this sympathetic , simple air , he expanded like the Bodhisat 's own lotus , speaking of his life in the great hills of Such-zen , before , as he said , ' I rose up to seek enlightenment . ' Then it came out that in those worldly days he had been a master-hand at casting horoscopes and nativities ; and the family priest led him on to describe his methods ; each giving the planets names that the other could not understand , and pointing upwards as the big stars sailed across the dark . The children of the house tugged unrebuked at his rosary ; and he clean forgot the Rule which forbids looking at women as he talked of enduring snows , landslips , blocked passes , the remote cliffs where men find sapphires and turquoise , and that wonderful upland road that leads at last into Great China itself . ` How thinkest thou of this one ? ' said the cultivator aside to the priest . ' A holy man -- a holy man indeed . His Gods are not the Gods , but his feet are upon the Way , ' was the answer . ` And his methods of nativities , though that is beyond thee , are wise and sure . ' ` Tell me , ' said Kim lazily , ` whether I find my Red Bull on a green field , as was promised me . ' ` What knowledge hast thou of thy birth-hour ? ' the priest asked , swelling with importance . ` Between first and second cockcrow of the first night in May . ' ` Of what year ? ' ' I do not know ; but upon the hour that I cried first fell the great earthquake in Srinagar which is in Kashmir . '
This XXXXX had from the woman who took care of him , and she again from Kimball O'Hara .
Bodhisat Kim Red Rule Srinagar birth-hour days first landslips nativities