GANJ, HIND., is a mart or market; a granary, especially one of grain ; and in Bengal and Hin dustan is applied to any village or town which is an emporium for gmin and other necessaries of life. It is used as an affix to proper names, as Islam-ganj, Hurdoa-ganj, Captain-ganj ; just as chip or chipping, which are of tho same mean ing as Ganj, is in England, as Chipping-Sodbury, Chep-stow, Chippen-ham, Cheap-side.
Ganj - Shahid, a sepulchral mound where Mahomedans have fallen and been buried.—Elliet. GANJA. HIND., TAIL, TEL. Hemp-plant.
Kanub , ARAB. I Ging-i-lacki lacki, MALAY.
Ma-fuen, Chu-tsao, CHIN. Ganjika, Bijiah, .SeNsx. Gindshi, . . . JAI".
The dried hemp plant which has flowered, and from vrhich the resin has not been removed, is called ganja. It sells lor 12 annas to 1 rupeo the seer in the bazars. It yields to alcohol 20 per cent. of resinous extract, composed of the resin (charras) and green colouring matter (chlorophylle). Distilled with a largo quantity of water traces of essential oil paas over, and the distilled liquor has the powerful narcotic odour of the plant. The ganja is sold for smoking chiefly. The bundles of gimp, are about 2 feet long, and 3 inches in diameter, and contain 24 plants.
Tho eolour is dusky green, the odour agreeably narcotic, the whole plant resinous, and adhesive to the touch. The natives cut the plant when in flosver, allow it to dry for three days, and then lay it in bundles averaging one seer weight, which are distributed to the licensed dealem The best kinds are brought from Gwalior and Bhurtpur, and it is also cultivated of good quality in a few gardens round Calcutta. In Jessoro tho drug is known to be produced of excellent quality, and to a very considerable extent of cultivation. In the north of Africa, South America, Turkey, Egypt, Asia Minor India, and the adjacent territories of the Malay, Burmese, and Siamese, hemp and its products are used in various forms by the dissipated and depraved, as the ready agent of a pleasing intoxication. The leaves or young leaf-buds of tho hemp plants iwo smoked by itself, or rubbed between the hands and added to tobacco to impart an intoxicating power.— Faulkner ; Boyle ; IVaring; Birdwood.