Indian Antiquary Vol 41

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[FEBRUARY, 1912.
Maraili : adj. Savage. Marayan : straw. Sirsa S. R., 1879-83, p. 230. Margoza: see ak-ka-mama.
Mari: the shrine of Gaga Pir (the greatest of the snake-kinga). Karnal S. R., 1672-80, p. 151.
Mari nakhna: to beat. Bauria argot. Marila: a little of the crop left for the poor. Karnal 8. R., 1872-80, p. 172. Martali: seg tirath Cf. marthiúl. Marthial: a place where corpses are burnt: mantoru torn in Kulla. Maru: an unirrigated land. Ludhiana S. R., 1878-88, p. 94. Mase kiwen: with some difficulty. Maser sass : mother-in-law's sister: wife's maternal aunt.
Match : (sie) (? much) a kind of harrow withont teeth, ased to make soil into soft mod before sowing rice. Kangra Globs.
Matha: s, m, forehead; mathe kajji, modest (of a woman) : math ekoná, to bow. Mathik: the bank over wbich water is to be lifted. Karnal S, R, 1872-80, p. 171. Matkana: a small cup made of pottery. Karnal S. R., 1872-80, p. 121.
Matri : 'motherly,' a title of Devi Adshakti at Kacheri. Matri Deora is another temple on the ridge above Kacheri village called Tikkar in Chamba.
Matti kádpa: a form of worship which consists in scooping out a little hollow in the earth by the shrine and flinging the soil on to a heap. Karol S. R., 1872-80, p. 145.
Matwala : sweet-of water, which causes a crop to fill profusely, but with A weak stalk. Rohtak.
Matwala : hard, a sort of water, the crops irrigated by it are generally good. Gurgaon S. R., 1872-83, p. 8. Mawa: (Bassia latifolia:) a tree. Hoshiarpur S. R., p. 13.
(To be continued.)
MISCELLANEA. MOOR'S HINDU PANTHEON.
That painting was exhibited as No. 1163 , THE author of the Hindu Pantheon (1810) | the Indian Court of the Festival of Empire, rightly deemed his Plato XVII, representation 1911, by Major E. O. Moor of the Rosary, Great of Mabadeo and Parvati, to be the gem of his Bealings, Ipswich, the author's grandson, who book. The painting or drawing from which also showed a number of objects, the originale Plate 17 is engraved is, I think,' he wrote, 'the from which the plates of images, etc., in the most beautiful and highly finished thing I ever Hindu Pantheon were engraved. anw. I purchased it at Poopa for forty rupees The mythological collection is for sale and (five pounde), but for some time the seller might be purchased for a museum. demanded a hundred (twelve guineas) for it.'
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
SHAH JAHAN TRANSLATED AS KING JOHN. in some sort, to appease the people's hatred."
A GOOD HOBSON-JOBSON.' 1634. "And that we might leave nothing
Herbert, Description of the Persian Monarchy. undone, which might advantage his resolutions,
now being the Orientall Indyes, p. 31, in the according to the order of the late Mogull, he course of a very inaccurate account of the Em changed his name from Currone [Kurram] tol peror Shah Jahan. Shaw Johan, or King John, thinking by that,
R. C. TEMPLE,