Indian Antiquary Vol 33

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

Page 89

MARCH, 1904.)
SOME ANGLO-INDIAN TERMS.
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SOME ANGLO-INDIAN TERMS FROM A XVIITE CENTURY MS.
BY BIR RICHARD C. TEMPLE, BART. (Oontinued from Vol. XXXII. p. 470.)
GUDGE. Fol. 94. They measure timber, planke brick or Stone walls, Callicoes, Silks &c p! the Gux: each Gus doth containe 27 inches. See Yule, &. v. Gadge, with hardly any quotations.
GUNDA. Pol. 94. One Gunda is 4 Cowries. ..5 Gundas is one barrie or 20: Cowries.
Not in Yulo. [Vide ante, Vol. XXVII. p. 171 ff., for the system of counting by gandis of quartettes. See also Vol. XXVII. p. 266.)
GUNJA. Fol. 39. but they find means to besott themselves Enough w Bangha and Gangah.
Fol. 40. Gangah is brought from yo Island Samatra and is oftentimes Sold here [Metohlipatam) at Very high rates. It is a thinge y! resembleth hemp seed and groweth after y! same mannar. ... Gangah being of a more pleasant Operation. . .. They Study many ways to Vse it, but not One of them y! faileth to intoxicate them to admiration. See Yule, . v. Gunja, who, however, gives no history of the word.
HALALOOBE. Fol. 8. Soe that this very party is a most scandalous person and accompted but a Hololoore untill he hath regained his cast. See Yule, 8. o. Halalcore : a very low-caste man, . "sweeper," soavenger.
HABSAPOBE. Fol. 59. from Point Conjaguares to Palmeris y? River is called Haraspoore.
Not in Yule : very early Factory and the first landing-place of the English in the Bay of Bengal: but see Yule, s. v. Factory, where he gives it doubtfully as Araspore, on the Eastern or Coromandel Coast. [There is, however, no doubt about it: Haraspur or Harsapar was perhaps the earliest Pactory in the Bay" : earlier even than Balasor and Pipli. Soe Wilson, Early Anals of Bengal, Vol. I. p. 1 ff. The quotation above is very valuable.)
HAUT. Fol. 94. They measure .... Callicoes, Silks &c. .... by y! Covet wob con: 18 inches and is called hawt. See Yule, 8. v. Haat, who gives, however, no quotations.
HINDOSTAN. Fol. 25. Naiques (for soe y Hindoo Governours are Entitled).
Vol. 59. Severall Radjas who before (y: Mahometan Conquest of y! Hindoos) possessed this Kingdome.
Fol. 71. always kept in his Court Sharpe witted fellows, y! made it theire businesse to pryo into y Estates of y. Hindoo Merchants. See Yule, s. o. Hindoo.
HINDOSTAN. Fol. 61. Bengala : It is one of yo largest and most Potent Kingdoms of Hindostan.... ... Chah Jehan (then Emperour of Hindostan .... The great Emperour of Hindostan
..... In the Throne of y! Vast Empire (of Hindoetan).