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. 1845 Excerpt: ...on which a person is posted to protect crops.--Dehli. Jounda and Tand are also used in this sense in Dehli; and the latter in Rohilcund also. In the Doah, Muttoola, (from Mutter, earth, ) and Menra and Mt/ra, (from its position on the border of the field;) and in Saugor, Murwa, for the same reason. Muchan and Mocha are ...
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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. 1845 Excerpt: ...on which a person is posted to protect crops.--Dehli. Jounda and Tand are also used in this sense in Dehli; and the latter in Rohilcund also. In the Doah, Muttoola, (from Mutter, earth, ) and Menra and Mt/ra, (from its position on the border of the field;) and in Saugor, Murwa, for the same reason. Muchan and Mocha are iu common. use elsewhere, and even within the limits of the local words abovementioned. Damee Wasilat, dami wasilat Gross Assets of a village; from the Dam of account, mentioucd above, and the Arabic root J-j joining, arriving. Menr, Mend, oJ signifies a limit, and Mentha, Mend ha, Usjli signifies a ram; and hence the Indian Pan, Daktha, who is represented with a ram's, or more properly with a goat's head, is called Mendh Itvara. Mendha is derived from the Sanscrit, and has a surprisingly close resemblance to the famous Egyptian Mendet, which was worshipped with rite more abominable than have ever been practiced in any nation of the world--Scil: hoi Iraijni entantha gunaixi mignuntai. (Strabo, XVII. s and Herodnttu, II. 42.) Mendet was worshipped as an Image of the same power which the Greeks personified with the image of Priapus, (Egyptian Mythology, p. 312;) nnd the statue of Triapns, we know, was the same as the scarecrow Terminus. It is therefore a curious coincidence, to say nothing more, that the same kind of connection should exist between the representative of the Indian Pan (Menrha) and the word (Menr) used as equiva. lent to Terminus. The word, thongh written Menr, is usually pronounced Mer, without the nasal n, and in this shape seems to ofler some interesting relations to words in other languages having the same meaning. Thus, Greek meiro, merot: Persian jr and-rj, a boundary or border of a country; hence uj'j-, a lord, or kee..
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