CUON RUTILANS. Jerdon. Wild dog.
Canis Dukhunensis, Syk,es. Cuon prinnevus, Hodgson. C. familiaris, var., Elliot. I Pao-ho, . . . BHOT. . . .
Eram-naiko, . . GOND. Kolsun, Kolusna, Mum Bhosa, Bhoonsa, . Kolsa, Kolasra, .
Buansa, . . . . „ Shen nai, . . . MALEAL. Jangli Rankutta, . HIND. Dhole, . . . SINGH.
Sonak, Bankutta, . „ Sidda-ki, . . . . TIB.
Rahnasy „ . . . „ Reza kuta, . . . TEL.
Sakki sarai, HYDERABAD. Adavi kuta, . . . „ Ran hun, . . KAMM.
The Cuon rutilans is common in Ceylon, and is found over all the Peninsula, jungles of the Dekhan, and S. Mahratta country, Malabar, Neil gherries, and Assam, Burma, and the Malay Peninsula. See Dog.
CUP.
Coupe; Tasse; Gobelet, Fn. 1 Cappa ; Tazza, . . . IT. Becher ; Schluck, . GER. Bicker, Sc.
Piala, . . . . HIND. Copa ; Taza, . . SP.
Several of the drinking races of India and Asia use the cup or piala to welcome the coming guest. Colonel Tod tells us (p. 377) regarding the love of strong drink and indulgence in it to excess, so deep rooted in the Scandinavian, Asi, and German tribes, and in which they showed their Getic origin, that the Rajput is not behind his brethren either of Scythia or Europe. Though prohibited by ordinances which govern the ordinary Hindu, the Rajput welcomes his guest with the munwar piala, or cup of request, in which they drown ancient enmities. The heroes of Odin never
relished a cup of mead more than the Rajput his niadhva ; and the bards of Scandinavia mid Raj wara are alike eloquent in the praise of the bowl, on which the Bardai exhausts every metaphor, and calls it ambrosial, immortal. The Bard, as be sips the ambrosia, in which sparkles the ruby seed of the pomegranate, rehearses the glory of the Rajput race. Even in the heaven of Indra, the Hindu warrior's paradise, akin to Valhalla, the Rajput has his cupy which is served by the Apsaras the twin sister of the celestial Hebe of Scania. I shall quaff full goblets amongst the gods,' says the dying Getic warrior, I die laughing,' are sentiments which would be appreciated by a Rajput. Cups in use with the Tibetans are made of maple knots, produced on the maple by the Balanaphora. Those in use by the ultra-Gangetic races in Burnna, and the Shan States, are lacquered bamboo ; those of China and Japan are of porcelain.—Rajasthan.