RAISINS.
Zabib, . ARAB., DL1LAT. BeilAne, . .
Kan-pu.tau, . . . CAIN. UVe paste, . . . Raisins secs,. . . FR. Uvsa puss; . . . LAT.
Raisins pass6s, . . „ Passa, . . . . PORT.
Rosincn, . . . GER. Uts-ka'h, . . . PCSIITU Darakh, Mowage,. GUJ. benne, iIcs.
IVonukka, Kismis, HIND. Pasas, Sl• Raisins are grapes allowed to ripen and dry upon the vine. The sweet fleshy grapes which grow upon the sunny, sheltered slopes of hills are preferred. When the fruit is ripe, the grapes are thinned and the vine is stripped of its leaves. The sun then completes the saccharifi cation, and (hives off the superfluous water. When the bunches are plucked they are cleaned, dipped for a few seconds in a boiling lye of woexl-ashes and quicklime ; the wrinkled fruit is then drained and dried by exposure to the sun upon hurdles for 14 or 15 days. The finest sun-raisins are the plumpest bunches left fully to ripen upon the vine, after their stalks have been cut half through. An inferior kind of misins is prepared by drying the grapes in an oven. They arc distinguished by the pLaces where produced or exported, as Malaga, Valencia, Persian, Smyrna, etc.; or from the variety of gmpe or mode of preparation, RS inuseatels, blooms, sultanas, be-dana, etc. Kismis sabz, or greet] raisins, are dried in the shade, and preserve a pale green colour ; 4 seers or 8 lbs. aro sold per rupee. Kismis sabz and kisniis surkh aro both varieties of the small raisin called iu Eng land the sultana, or seedless (be-dana) raisin. The Munakka of N.1V. India are pudding raisins, large ordinary grapes, dried carefully in the eUll, and sold at 3 seers per rupee. The Dagli aro
bloom raisins, prepared by dipping the finest bunches into a hot solution of lune and potash. and then dried in the shade.— Waterston; .l'otrell; l'oole, St. of C0711. ; MS11.
king of Anarta, built the city of Kusasthali or Dwaraka in Gnjerat, which he mado. his capital. lie gave his beautiful daughter Reran to Bala Raina.—Dowson.
RAJ. Iltsm. A government, a kingdom, a principality, a rule, a dynasty..
ItAJA, a title in India of independent Hind.0 aovereigns, but also beetowecl on Hindu officers of rauk. It is also held by tho .Malay chiefs of the Netherland possessions in tho Amin pektgo. A lady of this rank is Rap. Anionpt the Malay, Raja-inuda is the licir-apparent.to _the throne. Raja Rajeahwari is from Raja-raj: king of kings, and lahwari, a goddssis. Itnisesbi, from Rapti], a kiug, and Wahl, a Page. Raja Sitya, SANsx., from Rajan, a king, and Su, birth ; and amongst ancient Hindu sovereigns was a sacrifice performed to indicate that the sovereign is supreme over other kings, is an emperor ; a royal sacrifice performed as an assertion of sovereign supremacy, at a national banquet, combined with a religious significance, as a sacrifice to the gods. Maharaja, literally great ruler, is a titular distinction only applied to ruling Hindu princes of India. Rajadhi Raja, a supreme king of kings.