الیابلیا

अलै याबलैया alaiyā-balaiyā, s.f. Misfortune, etc.=alā`e-balā`e, q.v.; (and as the women use the words, whilst waving platters with lamps, etc. round a person's head, to remove or avert all evil, they have come to signify Offering, sacrifice, victim);—lighted wisps with which the Hindūs divert themselves at the season of the Dewalī.