Indian Antiquary Vol 60

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications

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JULY, 1931)
NOTES ON HOBSON JOBSON
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Bound-hedge. This is one of the words added by Mr. Crooke, and his earliest, or rather only, illustration is from Wilks (1792). But the word oocurs frequently in Orme's Military Transactions. In connection with the events of 1760, Orme writes:
11760.1 “The bound hedge of Pondicherry, besides its natural defences of trees and thorns is strengthened by four redoubts." -Op. cit. ed. 1803, Book XIII, vol. II, p. 665. And again :
"Colonel Coote was not embarked for Bengal, when the news of the success against the bound hedge arrived at Madras." Ibid., p. 679. See also ibid., pp. 256 and 680.
[1794.) A bound-hedge is thus described by Dirom in the Glossary appended to his Narrative of the Campaign in India :
“Bound-hedge. A broad strong belt of planting, chiefly the bamboo tree, the prickly pear and such other trees and shrubs as form the closest fence. Most of the forts and villages are surrounded with such a hedge and the large forts have a bound hedge that encloses & circuit of several miles as a place of refuge to the inhabitants of the adjoining country against the incursions of horse."
Yule suggested that it was a corruption of boundary hedge,' but Mr. Irvine marks this with a query (Army of the Indian Mughals, p. 262). Perhaps Bound' means closely packed, or interwoven, Bo compact as to be impenetrable.
Brinjarry, eto. (Yule's earliest example from an English source is dated 1793.)
(1628.) “The necessity of getting funds to pay their sugar merchants, being banjartes, and therefore can not stay for their monies, bas, induced them to pledge the gold, for Ra. 8.000 at one-half per cent interest."-English Factoriss in India, ed. Sir W. Foster (1624-1629), p. 270.
Budgerow. This word occurs at least thrice in Barani's history, which was completed in 1358 A.C.
fc. 1280.) “He thiyksu'd-din Balban) resolved to march against the rebel [Tughril] in person and ordered a large number of boats to be collected on the Ganges and the Jumna." Tarikh-i-Firdzahah in Elliot and Dowson, History of India, III, 115.
Here the word for boats is ! bajra-Bibl. Indica Text, p. 85, 1. 1. Again, we read on the same page that
“An immense fleet of boats was collected," etc. Here also the word in the original is st! (p. 86, 1. 3). Lastly, he writes of Sultan Jalalu'd-din Khalji (c. 1295 A.C.)
وفهم رمضان سلطان بر بهره نشسته در کره رسید
(Text. p. 231, 1. 10.) *On the 17th of Ramazan, the Sultan reached Karra in a bajra (boat). See also ibid., p. 86, 1. 6.
Buncus.(The earliest quotation in Hobson-Jobson from an English writer is dated 1711.)
[1673.] "From thence I went to observe the town [Tanore] .:: double row of cottages opened their shops of wares which consisted of pepper, turmerick:. : Bunco, i.e., tobacco and hubble-bubble canes, the product of this coast." J. Fryer, East India and Persia, ed. Crooke, I, 135.
The word is rightly derived from the Malay bungkus, a 'wrapper,' 'bundle, but the resemblance between this and the Sanskrit bandh koshabandh='bound,' and kosha, sheath,'
gurrounding cover,' 'any investing sheath' (Wilson, Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 8.0.) is so close that it is impossible not to be struck by it.
[c. 1669.) “The poore sort of inhabitants, vizt., the Gentiles, Mallabars, etc., smoke theire tobacco after a very meane, but I judge original manner, onely, the leafe rounded up, and light one end, and holdinge the other betweene their lipe, and smoke untill it is soe farre consumed as to warme their lips, and then heave the end away; this is called a bunko, and
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