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Encyclopaedia Western and Southern Asia Commerical Industrial and Scientific Products of the Mineral Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms Useful Arts and Manufacturers

1873

The Arabic alphabet hes two letters to which in India is given the sound of s. One of these called in India sad or swad has amongst the Arabs the sound of dad or dhad the other Arabic letter is called in Arabia say or they but in India it has only the sibilant sound of s. The Persian letter sin has the simple sound of the English letter 's::' The Nagari letter sh has the sound of sh Of t [...] The Hamm Balkees the palace of the Queen of Sheba is west of the town of Mareb. [...] The word Bhati also means "'warrior or soldier " and thus at the present day the tribes calling themselves " warriors " Lhdna a large proportion of the population in he countries to' the east of the Sutlej ;.'mely the Johiya Or Yaudheya along the river the Bagri in Bikaner end the Bhati in J'eSalmer. [...] To them he attributes the foundation of the town of Ajudhan or Ayodlianam the " battlfield" which is evidently connected with their own name of Yaudheya or Ajudheya the l‘ warriors " and he thinks the latter form of the name is most probably preserved in the Ossadii of Arrian a free people-who tendered their allegiante to Alexander at the conflence of the Panjab rivers.—Cunningham's Anc [...] Plants growing beyond the range of the overflowings of the river or of the influence of the tides are best.
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