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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1908.
Basant-mitti: a medicinal preparation of gold, silver, pearls, copper, slag and other drugs. Moro : Gold and Silver Work, p. 30.
Basoti: the Colebrookia oppositifolia. Mono : Leather Industry, p. 21. Balaya: a gold and silver thread-maker. Mono : Gold and Silver Work, p. 27. Batll: a synonym for pidli (cup); Bannu. Mono: Pottery and Glass Industries, p. 9.
Battak: a surdhi with flattened sides and fitted with ears, to allow of its being slang on a traveller's back. Mono: Pottery and Glass Industries, p. 8.
Bawaliwall nath: a nose-ring. Mono: Gold and Silver Work, p 32. BeAngra: a wooden semper or rubber. Cf. báongra. Mono : Leather Industry, p. 23. Bend: a forehead ornament. Mono: Gold and Silver Work, p. 32. Benj: soe jangli bans. Mono : Fibrous Manufactures, p. 4. Bem: a variety of boat. Mono: Wood Manufactures, p. 17.
Bhabar: a kind of grass, Andropagon involutus, Ol. Platts Hind. Diety., p. 177. Mono: Fibrous Manufactures, P: 2.
Bhai bharna: to cross parallel sets of strings behind each strand of the woof. Mono : Fibrous Manufactures, p. 11.
Bhakla; a kind of cloth: Hissar. Mono : Woollen Manufactures, p. 11
Bhambirt: the Antheræa sivalika silkworm. Cf. kaunta and jodiri. Mono: Silk Industry, p. 2.
Bhanda: a bowl containing water and sand kept by the side of the potter as he works. Cf. trena. Cf. Platts Hind, Dicty., p. 180. Mouo : Pottery and Glass Industries, p. 5.
Bhar: a sheaf. Mono : Wood Manufactures, p. 4,
Bharat: a mixture of equal parts of copper and lead, Cr, Platts' Hind. Dicty., p. 385. Mono: Brass and Copper, p. 1,
Bharla: a basket. Mono: Fibrous Manufactores, p. 19. Bharrt; a sheaf, which the sepî gets at each barvest. Mono : Leather Industry, p. 5. Bhartya: a cooking pot. Mono: Brass and Copper Ware, App. c., p. 8. Bhauner: the Himalayan nettle (Urtica heterophylla). Cf. ahan. Bhed kind of mould. Mono : Gold and Silver Work, p. 19.
Bhirnt: a kind of wheel used in twisting fibre ; Dera Ismail Khån. Mono: Fibrous Manufactures, p. 12.
Bhodal; a plate of mica or tale. Mono : Gold and Silver Work, p. 18.
Bhora; wide hole in the ground in which a potter deposits prepared clay as stook. Cf. ghambail. Mono: Pottery and Glass Industries, p. 3.
Bhulcht: an ear ornament. Mono : Gold and Silver Work, p. 83. Bhungt: a basket. Mono: Fibrous Manufactures, p. 13. See P.D., p. 145. Bis: a nose ornament. Mono : Gold and Silver Work, p. 33. Biang: a wooden scraper or rubber. Cf. sitní. Mono: Leather Industry, p. 23. Bichhlt: an ornament. Mopo : Gold and Silver Work, p. 34. Bicha: Urtica reticulata. Cf. karla. Mono: Fibrous Manufactures, p. A.-in
