LAR. HIND. A necklace of several threads or rows ; 7 rows, etc. ; also a strand of untwisted rope.
LAR, the local name of the southern portion of the province of Sind, from Hyderabad to the sea, where the people speak the Lari dialect of Sindi.
LAR, a river, rises not far from the town of Barkban, iu the country of the Ketrani or Khut tiani in Baluchistan. It flows westward, and joins the Narra in the Murree Hills, south of Sihi.
LAR, the Aupaci of Ptolemy, the I.ata of Sanskrit writers, a country comprising Kandesh and part of Gujerat about the Mhye river.
Ptolemy and the Periplus mention Gujerat under the term Larice, and Biruni and Abul fada place Somnath and even Tana in or on the borders of the province of Lar. The merchant Sulaiman calls the Gulf of Cambay and the seas which wash the Malabar coast, the seas of Lar ; and Masudi says that at Saimur, Subara, Tana, and other towns, a language called Lariya is spoken. The Charita enumerates Lardes, or country of the Lar, amongst the eighteen regions dependent on Anhilwara, but, for some fault, Komar-pal chased the tribe of Lar from the country. Ibn-Said says that he had met with authorities which placed the famous temple of Somnath in the country of Lar. Lardes seems to
have at one time included the modern collectorates of Surat, Broach, Kaira, and parts of Baroda territory ; and the name probably embraced a wider or narrower region according as the power of the Lar race varied. It is very doubtful whether the Indus ever did disembogue so far to the east as the Gulf of Cutch. The remains of this ancient tribe are now only to be discovered in Rajputana in the third or mercantile caste, forming one of the eighty-four great families residing in Maru, and following the Jain faith. In Maiker of Berar is a race named Lar, who seem to be a broken portion of a considerable tribe, the Lar of North Western India. They arc returned as a Hindu people of Maiker. They are named Lour in Amraoti, and are there 3485 in number. The I.ar are weavers of cloths of silk in Berar. are pieces of twisted metal, which Tavernier found to be current as coin on the Malabar coast, and Thunberg saw them in Ceylon. They had their name from the province of Lar.—Elliot's History of India, i. p. 378 ; Tod's Travels, p. 187.