Indian Antiquary Vol 32

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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JANUARY, 1918.)
SOME ANGLO-INDIAN TBBMS.
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Ful. 74. a very large Bagar or markett place ... dayly to be bought and Sold in the publieke Besar, commonly called y great Besar.
Fol. 92. Cossumbazar.... whence it received this name Consum signifieinge y! husband or Chiefe and Besar a Markett.
Fol. 174. all that piece of land .....neare y! great Basar (at Achin) is a great deale higher and not at all Overflowna.
See Yale, . v. Bazaar. [It may be news to many that the third a in basaar" is a comparatively modern introduction, the old spelling "basar" being the correot one from all points of view.]
BEBJAPORE. Fol. 14. alsoo y: Kingdoms of Visepoore and Goloondah. Fol. 41. Southward of Porto Novo, w appertaineth to y! Visepore Kinge. .
Not in Yale. [It is noteworthy that in the time of the writer the kingdom of Bijapur (or Vízia púr as T. B. probably heard it pronounced) did extend right across the Peninsula to Porto Novo on the East Coast.]
BENDABA. Fol. 141. he immediately tarned out of office most of y! Syamers both Councellors Secretaries Shabandares Bandarees de men of Antient Standinge, and choice men of all y! Coantrey, both for Estates and publick good and very well approved of by y: people. Not in Yulo. [The Bondars was a degree of nobility among the Malays.)
BENGAL Fol. 61, Bengale: It is one y: largest and most Potont Kingdoms of Hindontan. Fol. 79. Hee found 5 Saile of Bengala Ships in y! roade. Fol. 84. The Bengala's (vizt: yJdolatrous people of y! Countrey). Fol. 93. Even so farre as Persis : when in y! yeare [P] I wont from Bengales thither. See Yalo, 6. v. Bengal. [See ante, Vol. XXX. p. 947.]
BENJAMIN. Fol. 158, from y! West Coast of this Jaland [Sumatra] Store of very Excellent Benjamin. See Yule, 3. v. Benjamin, Benzoin incense).
BETEL. Fol. 20. make merry with Batelee Areca tobacco or the like accordinge as theire abilitie can afford,
Fol. 45. often chawinge Bøtelee Areca, won they call Paune. Fol. 135. all the fraite this countrey (Janselone] affordeth is ..... Botoleo Areca. Fol. 169. there are sett before him Store of Beteles Areca to eat and tobacco to Chaw.
Fol. 163. The Batelee Areca : is here [Achin) in great plenty ..... and then [cat] one Betelee leefe or two accordinge as they are in bignesse ... and thus will they almost all day longe chew betelep Areca.... and paringe off a little of y: green rine, eat it w betelee.. The leafe is y! betelee, a broad leafe not very much Vnlike to an I vie leafe, onely Somethinge thinner, and groweth resemblinge y! Vine.
Fol. 164. Aroom, (vist commonly called betelee Nut) doth grow Vpon a very comely Streight and Blender tree .. .. It is a very hard wood, and much valued by many in Jndia to make lances and pikes On.