Indian Antiquary Vol 52

SR No.: 032544
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple, Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, Krishnaswami Aiyangar
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1985
Total Pages: 568
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 24 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
NOVEMBER, 1923
Gilhru : goitre; in Kulu; cf. Gilra in III: Gloss., I, p. 432. Gindi : matting ; B., 196.
Gindi-bråg: a game like 'hen-and-chickens'; of the players one is a shepherd, one a leopard, others sheep and dogs. The leopard tries to seize one of the sheep who is rescued by the dog : (brág = leopard) : Ch., 212.
Girah : see under Ungal. Girâhf := Chhanân q.v. B., 108.
Girasni : the ceremony which completes a marriage; the bride gives the boy gur: Sirmûr, 31.
Gobi : a kind of tobacco, not so tall as the ordinary tamaki or tamaki and with spreading leaves like a cabbage : Ch., 225.
Godami: - Barhil, q.v. God lena, lit. 'to take in the lap,' to adopt : Gloss., I, p. 903. Goha:=mail, manure : Ch., 221. Gohåla : a Brahman to whom alms are given at a suphandi : Ch. 210. Gohar : waste land on hillsides leading to a stream: Mandi, 65. Goldâr : a Police officer, thanadár : SS. Bashahr, 24. Golf : a game played with pice or other coins; - Gatti: Ch., 211. Gon, 'sky'; hence Govânu, the Sky god : SS. Jubbal, 12. Gorchar : pasture near a village ; = Juh and Munchar : Ch., 277. Gosum : Schleichera trijuga : Sirmûr, App. IV, iv.
Got: a form of contract in which the contractor engages shepherds to fold their flooks on land in return for the manure, the contractor being paid malána by the landowner : Ch., 279.
Got-bhái: a collateral however remote: Comp., 132. Gotri: a blood relation : Ch., 148. Grât : a water-mill; -1, the owner of a water-mill; - and, a tax on water-mills : Ch., 276. Grit :=ghi : B., 111.
Guâmi: a present (Rs. 3) given to the bride's mother by the bridegroom; also called thilaul: Ch., 157.
Gudani : Jhanjrårâ q..: Ch., 147. Gudni: thinning out, of crops : halodni : Ch., 225. Guldår: a corruption of ghalladar, a store-keeper : Sirmar, 63. Guli dandå : tip-cat : Ch., 212. Gan: horsechestnut: Aesculus indica: Ch., 237. Gun: the fruit of the Pavia indica : Ch., 222. Gunachu : Rubus lasiocarpus : Sirmûr, App. IV, v. Ganch: a kind of fish : Sirmûr, 7. Gundalka : almost dark : Ch., 204. Gundri:= Kundia, trousers : SS. Bashahr, 42.
Gunna: speaking through the nose; hence, ghunain, one who speaks through his nose': Ch., 138.
Guntar: cow's urine, Guntr, Guntrar, Guntrala, a rite of purification after childbirth : Ch., 123.
Guråkh&: a peon: = Jeltâ : Mandi, 59. Gurani : coarse sugar: Sirmur, 26.
Gurbår: a special day in each year, usually a birthday, on which no work may be done Ch., 194