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8ne nudi. Yara keļalilla aru ganda taki Hanamî bidda nelaka | chiry-adata jana suttagatřito anji-konda jivaka | Sûra wobba bahala jora mâțidana határa tago!adaka yêri baru kudari küla kadadano swara bidda nelaka || Rami gandili jôra madi hodadalo mûra mandi sirakal ira kudariya kadada si dadalo Bâlana sûrîyaka II Chyala | Yir-yâru illad-aditu! ûr-ella lâţi îgi hôta | Mandi mani hokka hudakita dana kara layâ adita | Saņņa kûsagaļu hôdawu sattu! benki hachchhyfira wūra suttita il Nashta Ati nodari iwatta ni hêlatê na imatu || Yêra || Isht-ella alavrigi hôdito muttalilla yât-etaka || 8 !!
9ne nudi. Katti kudari muttu mâņikh ykvada bidalilla belli bhangara haraļin-angara honn-ungara golf II Saragi sardaļi baguļi bawali bidalillâ kadaga kankaņå nadavina-daba nadakattu rumALA 1 Kubasa biri happala saņdigi kurchigi kudagólA kodali köti kuda-kabbiņi masara henni háld | Uppa yeņņi araśiņa jîrigi akki sakkari bellA I gangaļa charagi mangala-sútrå takonda hodara bisu-kallå 11 Ilava 11 HA!-âgi hôdito ishţa | warņisi hêlala yeshța 11 Yella tagondaro sikk-ashța sarda nintaro wêrige kolli kotta 11 Badi mâidera Halagali sutļu | Halagali gurta yellaashța || Kaņasta hôdito ketta 1 warnisi hêļidenu ishțu || Yêra 11 Kurta kõți-Kalmēšana dayadinda hêlada-kêladaka 11 9 11
CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEA. DASHT-I-LUT.
and,"-all these are lát and lat men. In chess In connection with Aydb Khan's escape the when the king has lost all his pieces and pawns Dasht-1-Lat has frequently been mentioned in he is lat and the game is considered drawn ;-shah news reports. Indian papers translated Dasht-i-Lät lat shud, mat nist: the king is lag, he is not as the Desert of Lot. Sir Oliver St. John in his mate. geography of Persia' referring to Khanikoff's call- The wood lat stands to lukht, another word for ing the desert north-east of Kermån the desert naked, exactly as lat to lakht. From Lat by of Lat or Lot' says, "I cannot help doubting this is derived tags, originally a sodomite, now gene. derivation, as I more than once heard the word rally a buffoon, a rogue. idt used in Beluchistan as equivalent to waterless."
A. HOUTUM-SCHINDLER. I may here remark that Khanikoff did not call the
Teheran. Desert. Lot's Desert'; all the way through he speaks of " le desert de Lout." The French for As to General Schindler's remarks on the ori. Lot is Loth not Lout. The word it means naked, gin of " loot." If the word is of Indian origin, as bare; hence dasht-i-zat, the bare, naked plain, the Colonel Yule's remarks in his Glossary of Anglo. plain with nothing in it, i.e., desert, Lat for desert Indian Terms, 8. D., would seem to prove, it is, I is a very common expression in Persia; it is writ- think, more likely to have come from the common
Indian word, iat or as it would be written in From the Persian låt kerdan, to make bare, to the Perso-Indian character, than from the Persian rob, has been derived the Anglo-Indian term to word w idt. The Indian word has Sansksit loot, to rob, plunder, and loot, plunder, booty. The connections lótra from root lú, to cut, destroy : word idt, (and lat) originally piece, bit (hence lat Loptra, loptri from root lup to break destroy, rot; lat, latalat, in pieces, broken up) is frequently
PAli lutto (past part. of lupyati)": whence no need together with lat; a man lat we it,' is a doubt the cerebral ( now used in tho modern man who has nothing whatever in this world.
word. Khaqant says, “Inhd hameh mard-i-ldt we tát
R. C. TEMPLE.
.لوط the word for Lot is زلوت ten
· Elstern Persia, Vol. I. 16.
Mém... 1. partie mérid. de l'Arie contrale, Paris, 1861.
