Journal Volume 3-4 (Paperback)

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...Frondosa, Sanskrit Palasha. In the west districts this tree is known as Dhak, whence many village names, Dhakka, Dhakia, Dhakauli, Dhakari to the west of Benares. To the East in contrast with these are the Parsa names which are mainly co-extensive with the colloquial use of Paras as the name of the tree. Still further east the Paras tree gave its name to a whole province. Sir A. Cunningham writes (p. 454), "Strabo, Pliny, Arrian call the people Prasii, a Greek "form of Palasiya or Parasiya, a man of Palasa or " Parasa, which is an actual and well-known name of "Magadha, from the Paras, Butea Frondosa." Mr. Hooper, to whom I owe the Gosain story, writes, " It has been borne in upon me that Parsa must come " from Paras. I was assessing a Tappa the other day in "which the villages were alternately Parsas and Pipras, "and if Rehra from Rehar why not Parsa from Paras? " Khor. In the west Khor has the sense of a ravine, such ravines as seam the high banks of rivers like the Jumna, but in the Eastern districts the word has a different signification, viz. a pathway, originally perhaps the pathway leading from the village to the grazing grounds. A village name suggestive of this meaning is Bhainsa-khor in Azamgarh. From a pathway the word came to mean a village, as Lohra-khor, the Lohars' village in Jaunpur and Bans khor in Basti. Pott in the passage quoted under Par dwells on the frequency with which words signifying path or road come to mean village. Khor, a ravine or gulley, is identical with Khol, hollow, but Khor, a path, comes, I think, from khur, Sanskrit kshurah, hoof, and means primarily, a hoof-track. Very similar is the expression khur-daen, for the treading out of corn. In Bundelkhand the word khonra is used for a cattle-pen, and is presumably...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...Frondosa, Sanskrit Palasha. In the west districts this tree is known as Dhak, whence many village names, Dhakka, Dhakia, Dhakauli, Dhakari to the west of Benares. To the East in contrast with these are the Parsa names which are mainly co-extensive with the colloquial use of Paras as the name of the tree. Still further east the Paras tree gave its name to a whole province. Sir A. Cunningham writes (p. 454), "Strabo, Pliny, Arrian call the people Prasii, a Greek "form of Palasiya or Parasiya, a man of Palasa or " Parasa, which is an actual and well-known name of "Magadha, from the Paras, Butea Frondosa." Mr. Hooper, to whom I owe the Gosain story, writes, " It has been borne in upon me that Parsa must come " from Paras. I was assessing a Tappa the other day in "which the villages were alternately Parsas and Pipras, "and if Rehra from Rehar why not Parsa from Paras? " Khor. In the west Khor has the sense of a ravine, such ravines as seam the high banks of rivers like the Jumna, but in the Eastern districts the word has a different signification, viz. a pathway, originally perhaps the pathway leading from the village to the grazing grounds. A village name suggestive of this meaning is Bhainsa-khor in Azamgarh. From a pathway the word came to mean a village, as Lohra-khor, the Lohars' village in Jaunpur and Bans khor in Basti. Pott in the passage quoted under Par dwells on the frequency with which words signifying path or road come to mean village. Khor, a ravine or gulley, is identical with Khol, hollow, but Khor, a path, comes, I think, from khur, Sanskrit kshurah, hoof, and means primarily, a hoof-track. Very similar is the expression khur-daen, for the treading out of corn. In Bundelkhand the word khonra is used for a cattle-pen, and is presumably...

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July 2012

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236

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978-1-153-49808-1

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