Water
Water. Maa, Arab. Ayar, Ayar-tawar,31mar. Hu, . . . Assyrian. Ab, Pers. Burnt Ku, . . . Serrniax. Yuh-yih, . . Chin. Tanni, . . . . Tam. Shwui, „ Ncru, Tel. Ga. Chu, Ti B. Pani, Hind. Water, With The Hindus, Is Used As A Synonym For Climate. Ab-o-howa, ...
Waterfalls
Waterfalls. The Principal Cataracts (31 Waterfalls In India Are Those Near Simorri Ir Rohilkhand ; At Gokak, On The Gutpurba ; Yena In Mahabaleshwar, 600 Feet ; Cauvery, 300 Feet Cataracts Of Subunreka, Chutia Nagpur, Anc Hurrori Ghat, The Falls 15, 20, And 400 Feel Respectively. Waterfalls Occur In The ...
Waterspouts
Waterspouts Are Frequent In The Indian Ocean, The Bay Of Bengal, And The Arabian Sea. They Generally Form A Double Cone. The Upper Portion With Its Apex Downwards Consists Of A Dense Cloud, While The Lower Cone, The Apex Of Which Is Pointed To The Heavens, Consists Of Water, Which ...
Wax Insect
Wax Insect, Chung-peh-lah And Shu-lah, Cum., The Coccus Pela, Westwood, Is Of A Whitish Hne When Small, But Becomes Of A Dark-brown Colour At The Close Of The Season. They Are Found On Certain Oleaceous Plants, Ligustrum Japonicum, L. Lucidum, And L. Obtusifolium, And It Is The Secretion Of These ...
Wax Trees
Wax Trees. Species Of Myrica Yield Myrtle Wax, Especially Ai. Cerifent Of Louisiana, The Berries Of Which Are Encrusted With Wax. By Boiling These In Water, A Quantity Of Hard, Brittle Wax Of A Pale-green Colour Is Obtained, Of The , Specific Gravity Of 1.015, The Fusing Point Bein,g 110°. ...
Waziri
Waziri, A Brave, Active, Warlike, But Aggressive And Predatory Race In The Mountains On Each Side Of Bannu And Dour. They Occupy All The Hill Tract From Kuram And The Miranzai To The Gomal And Goleri Pass, South Of Tank. They Hold Both Sides Of This Pass, Which Is The ...
Weaving
Weaving Is An Art That Has Existed In India In All Ita Perfection From The Earliest Period Of Which There Is Any Record. In The Institutes Of Menu, Compiled Perhaps 1400 Years Before The Christian Era, Weaving Is Spoken Of As A Familiar Handicraft. That The Product Was Woven Cloth ...
Weevils
Weevils. The Family Of The Weevils Is One Of The Most Extensive Amongst The Beetles, And In Europe Many Of Its Members Do Much Injury To Agricultural Produce. Mr. Nietner Had Seen Nearly The Whole Sweet Potato (batatas Edulis) Crop Of The Negombo District Of Ceylon Destroyed By One Of ...
Weigiits
Weigiits • And Measures. Mikyal, Kayl, . . Arad. Aiyar, Kobin, . . Pers. Waznat, Kal, . . „ Peirnan, . . . . „ Taul, Map, . . . Llisn. The Ancient Linear Measures Of The Egyptians And The Jews Were Taken From A Unit Representing The Human Foot ...
Well
Well. Baori, Baoli, . . I Chat), Pus. Bao, Maur. I Drawing Water Has Ordintuily Been The Employ Milt Of Females Throughout The East From A Remote Antiquity. Some Of The Wells In India Are Con Structed With Much Architectural Embellishment, Of Great Depth, And Of Considerable Breadth. The More ...
Wellington
Wellington. Arthur Wesley Or Wellesley, Field-marshall The Duke Of Wellington; Was A Distinguished Soldier, And An Illustration Of The Importance To A Commander Of An Acquaintance With The Civil Occupation Of A Statesman. On The 7th Of March 1787 He Received His First Commis Sion As An Ensign In The ...
Western Coast
Western Coast Of India Includes Travan Core, Cochin, Aud Malabar, And Comprises A Strip Of Land Of Various Width, Lying Between The Sea On The Western Side Of India, And The Range Of Western Ghats, Which It Includes. It Is Naostly Undulating Or Hilly, Almost Everywhere Covered With Jungle Of ...
Whanghee
Whanghee. Jar., Malay. A Name De Rived From The Chinese Wang, Yellow, And Hee, Root, A Species Of Cane Exported From China. The Whanghee Cane Has A Pale, Hard Bark And Flexible Stem, With Intervals Of About An Inch And A Half Or Two Inches, And A Number Of Little ...
Whirlwind
Whirlwind. Lay-boay,. . . . Burm. I Gird Bad, . . . . Pers. Devil Wind, . . . Eng. I Peshash, . . . . Tam. The Whirlwinds Which Occur In The Desert West Of Kharan, Near Ragan In Baluchistan, Would Perhaps Be More Correctly Called By Some Other ...
White Elephants
White Elephants Are Reverenced By The Burmese And Siamese. All The White Elephants Now Existing In Siam And Burma Are Of A Light Mouse Colour, Somewhat Of The Same Tint As The Pale Freckles To Be Found On The Trunk Of Almost Every Ordinary Elephant. This Light-grey Is Uni Form ...
William De Rubruquis
Rubruquis, William De, Made A Journey In A.d. 1253-1256 To Kara-korum, In The Reign Of Louis Ix. Of Fra.nce, And Of Mangu Khan, The Grandson Of Chengiz Khan. While St. Louis Of France Was Engaged In The Seventh Crusade, A.d.,1218-50, And The Lieutenants Of Octai Or Okkadai Khan Were At ...
William Roxburgh
Roxburgh, William, M.d., A Medi Officer Of The Madras Army, In The Service4.1 The E. I. Company, Who Was Their Botanist In The Carnatic, And Subsequently In Charge Of The Gardens In Calcutta. He Entered The Madras Service 1766, And Died In 1815. He Was Author Of Coromandel Plants, And ...
Wilson
Wilson. Horace Haymanwilsonwent To India In September 1808 As An Assistant-surgeon On The Bengal Establishment, And Was Attached To The Mint At Calcutta, In Association With Dr. Leyden, Then Next To Henry T. Colebrooke, The Most Dis Tinguished Orientalist In India. His Studies, Con Sistently Carried Through More Than Half ...
Wind
Wind. Bars, . . . . Hind. I Vaya, . . . . Sanhic. Ang, Malay. Gel, Tax Bad, Perfi. In 1831, Mr. Redfield Of New York Established The Fact That Storms, Seemingly The Most Violent And Lawless, Moved With Precision In Fixed Paths, And Executed Their Rotative Movements With ...
Witchcraft
Witchcraft Is Believed In By All Tho Races Of The South And East Of Asia. It Still Lingers Even In Civilised Britain. Amongst The Musalman We Find The First Distinct Expression Of The Religious Condemnation Of All Magic) Aa A Sin, Because It Is Treason Against God. But Sorcery Of ...
Wood
Wood. Lieutenant John Wood, Of The Indian Navy, Was Born In 1812, And Educated At The Perth Academy. He Joined The Indian Navy When Very Young, And Retired Frona It In 1842. He Became Managing Director Of The Indus Flotilla, And Lived In Sind ,for Many Years. He Died In ...
Wood Moth
Wood-moth, Wood-carrying Moth: ' Sacktragcr, . . . Ger. 1 Muluka Rasari, . . Tam. Dara-kattea; . Sdig H. 1 Kundi Puled, . . „ There Aro Five Ascertained Specie& Of These In Ceylon,—psyche Doubledaii, Medals Plena, I Valker; Eumeta Cramerii, I Vestiv.; E. Temple Tonii, Ll'estas; And Cryptothelea Consorta, ...
Wrightia Antidysenterica
Wrightia Antidysenterica. I?. Dr. Nerium Antidysentericuro, Linn. La.-thou, . . . Berm. Veppala, . . . . Tam. Conessi Bark Tree, Eng. Kodaga Pala, . . . Tel. Inderjau, . . . ' Hind. Pala Cbettu, . . . „ Cheeri, . . . . Sansk. Kodiss Pala, . . ...
Writing
Writing. Haraf (a.), Haruf (pl.), An. Scriptura, . . . . Lat. Raqm, Irqam, . . . „ Navaaht, . . . Pers. Tahrir I P Lipi, Sansx. Ecriture, Fa Eacritura, . . . . Sr. Schrift, . . . . Gra. Aruba, Ezhuttu, . Tam. Likhawat, . . . ...
Wynad
Wynad, The Highland Division Of The Malabzu District, Madras, Lying Between Lat. 11° 27' And 11°458'•n., And Between Long. 75° 50' 45'' And 76° 41' E. ; Containing (in 1881) 16 Amshome Or Parishes; And 88,091 Inhabitants, And Covering An Area Of 1180 Square Miles. The 1vynad Consists Of A ...
Xanthoxylon
Xanthoxylon, A Genus Of Plants Belonging To The Xanthoxylacem, Of Which The Following Are S. Asia Species :— X. Alantholdoa S, And Z., Japan. X. Alatum, Baib., Nepal, N. India. X. Avicennia., D, China. X. Budrunga, D. C., Assam, X. Hostile, Wall., Himalaya. X. Limonifolium, 1.11aasys. X. Nitidum, D. (,'., ...
Xavier
Xavier. Francis Xavier Was Born 7th April 1506, In Castle Xavier, At The Feet Of The Pyren Noes, About 21 Miles From Pampeluna, And Derived His Pedigree From The Kings Of Navarre. At College He Became Acquainted With Ignatius Loyola; And, As Father Francisco Xavier, He Was A Joint Founder, ...
Yadava
Yadava, Descendants Of Yadu, The Eldest Son Of Yayat And Devayiud, A Unlade Pastoral Race Of Ancient India. The Date Of Their Arrival In India Is Unknown. At The Time Of Krishna's Birth They Were In The Neighbourhood Of Mathura, Now Called Muttra, A Town On The Banks Of The ...
Yajur Sansk
Yajur. Sansk. The Name Of One Of The Vedas, Religious Books Of The Hindus. It Is The Second Of The Four Scriptural Authorities Of The Hindus, And Is The Sacrificial Veda. The Taittiriya, Or The Black Yajur Veda, Contains More Of Prayers To Serpents And Serpent-worship Than The Rig Veda. ...
Yama
Yama, In Hindu Mythology Son Of Vaivas Vata And Saranyu, Is Called In The Persian Legend Yima, And Later Jamshid. Yama Or Dharma-raja Resembles Both The Grecian Pluto, The King Of The Lower Regions, And Alines, Judge Of Departed Souls, And In Hindu Mythology He Is The Regent Of The ...
Yanadi
Yanadi, A Race Who Dwell In The Forests Of Tho Sriharikottah Muttah Of The Chingleput Col Lectorate. They Are In A Low State Of Civilisation, And Hold Little Or No Intercourse With Their Mom Civilised Neighbours. Until The Middle Of The 19th Century, Their Ordinary Avocations Were The Gathering Of ...
Yang Tze Kiang
Yang - Tze - Kiang Is Tbe Largest Of The Chinese Rivers. The Entrance Is Very Wide, But Divided Into Two Channels By The Large Island Of Tsung-min On The North. On The Shore Of Its Southern Entrance Is The Town Of Wosung. The Yang-tze-kiaug River Is Called By The ...
Yantra
Yantra, Yantri, Or Jantri, A Hindu Almanac, Dial, Altitude And Azimuth Instruments. Raj Yantra Is Used For Ascertainiug The Alti Ide Of The Heavenly Bodies And The Longitude Of Laces, Referred To Lucknow (secular Capital) And Ajodliya (religious Capital) As Circles Of First Teridian. If The Longitude Of Places, Having ...
Yarkand
Yarkand Is The Most Populous And Extensive Of All The Distrieth Of Kasligaria, The Souls Number Ing 40,000. Its Capital, Yarkand, The Largest Town Of Eastern Turkestan, Has Populous Suburbs, Its Principal Industry Being The Leather Trade. Yarkand Stands On An Open Plain Between The Branches Of The Yarkand River. ...
Yavan Or
Yavan Or Javan, The Seventh Son Of Japheth. Colonel Tod Says 'the Hericula Also Claim From Yavan Or Javan, The Thirteenth In Descent From Yayat, The Third Son Of The Primeval Patriarch. I Yavana, A Term Applied By The Aryan Brah Mans To Conquering Races Who Approached And Invaded India ...
Yayati
Yayati, Fifth King, Of The Lunar Race, Was Son Of Nahusha. His Wife Devayani Was The Mother Of Yadtt. Who Founded The Yadava Line, And His Wife Sannislitha Bore Purn, Who Founded The Paurava Line. His Other Three Sous Were Druhyu, Turvasn, And Amt. The Mahabharata, Vishnu Padina, And Harivansa ...
Yeast
Yeast, Barm. Kiau, Tsiu-kiau, . Cum. Tart, Sandi, Nardi, Hind. Tsiu-rou, Shin-kiuh, „ Spurna Di Cervogia, . Ir. Yest Fb. Se. . . Tam., Tel. Lie Fen, Geb. Yeast Is A Product Of The Fermentation By Which Beer Is Made, Upon The Surface Of Which It Swims From Involving Bubbles ...
Yemen
Yemen, A Province In The Southern Art Of Arabia, Washed On The West By The Red Sea And On The South By The Indian Ocean. It Comp 'ses Nearly 70,000 Square Miles, And Consists Of .wo Natural Divisions, The Upper Or Mountain District, And The Lower Country Called Tehama. The ...
Yeraver
Yeraver, Predial Slaves Of The Kodaga Pro Prietors Of Coorg ; Tempted By The Wages Offered By The Coffee-planters, They Have Refused To Work For Their Masters. The Peasant Masters On One Occasion Came Down In Force Upon One Of The Coffee Estates Where A. Party Of Yeraver Were Vvorking, ...
Yerkal Vadu Or
Yerkal Vadu Or Yera-kedi. Yerkulle Var, . . Tel I Yerakedi, Yerukellu, Tel. Eri-kuvadu, . . „ I Kurshi-wanlu, . . „ A Homeless Race. In Communities They Style Themselves Yerkal, And They Give The Same Appellation To The Language In Which They Hold Communication With Each Other. Some Of ...
Yezdejird Iii
' Yezdejird Iii., The Last Of The Persian Kings, Who Was Defeated By Abdullah, Son Of The Khalif Omar. His Lieutenant Rustam Opposed The Arabs In An Obstinate Battle, A.d. 636, At Kadesiah On The Tigris. Rustam Was Slain, And The Leathern Apron Of The Mythical Blacksmith Caveh, The Ancient ...
Yezidi
Yezidi Have A Tradition That They Originally Came From Basrah, And From The Country Watered By The Lower Part Of The Euphrates ; And That, After Their Migration, They First Settled In Syria, And Subsequently Took Possession Of The Sinjar Hill And The Districts They Now Inhabit In Kurd Istan. ...
Yiii King
Yiii-king, An Ancient Chinese Book. The Annotation Of Confucius To The Ancient Work Yih-king, States That Fu-he Got Tho Idea Of His Diagrams From A Figure On The Back Of A Dragon Horse ' Which Issued From A River. The Same Annotation States That, Before Fu-lie Invented Tile Eight Diagrams, ...
Yoga
Yoga, In Ilindu Astronomy, Tho Leading Or Principal Star Of A Lunar Mansion, The Position Of Which Is Given In The Hindu Astrononncal Tables. There Are 28 Yoga Stars (including Abhijit) In Tho Lunar Zodiac ; But, With Tho Exception Of 16 Or 17 Of These (on The Identity Of ...
Yojana Or
Yojana Or Ved. Sansk. Au Astronomical And Geographical Measure, Deduced From The Ratio Of The Diameter Of The Earth To The Circumference Of Its Equatorial Circle. The Dimensions Of The Yojana, Like Those Of Any Other Measum, Miginate In An Arbitrary Division Of Extent, For Wfiich The Hindus Have Chosen ...
Yoni Sansk
Yoni. Sansk. The Place Or Elements Of Birth, From Sanskrit Root Yu, To Mix. In The Physiolog Ical Religion Or Philosophy Of The Hindus, The Ling,ain And The Yoni Represent Organs Of The Human Body, And The Symbols Are To Be Seen In Almost Every Street Of Every Town Of ...
Yuchi Or
Yuchi Or Yuti Appear To Be The Tribe Whom The Greeks Called Tochari. They Formed Part Of The Barbaric Kings Of Bactria. B.c. L26 Hermmus—rules Over Parop., Nyasa, Gand., Peak. (the Sn-saka Race Obtain Arya, Drangia, And Arach. From The Parthians.) Mauas—has Taxila, Por., Reg., Cath., Patta Lene, Syrastrene, Larice. ...
Yudishthra
Yudishthra, A Prince Of Great Celebrity, Who, According To Indian Authoi\ Reigned About The Beginning Of The Kaliyug ; Some, However, Fix The Epoch Of His Reign 653 Years Later, Or In The Year 2448 Before Christ. He Is Also Said To Have Been Contemporary With The Astronomers Parasara And ...
Yuen
Yuen, A Dynasty Of China, Which Succeeded The Sungh In A.d. 1271. They Were Mongols, Immediate Descendants Of Chengiz Khan, Who Adopted Chinese Civilisation Only In A Very Slight Degree, And Were Soon Expelled. The First Emperor Of The Native Dynasty, The Ming, Which Succeeded Them In A.d. 1368, Though ...
Yuii Chin
Yuii. Chin. Jade, Nephrite. Yashm, . . . . Pctis. I Sutash, . . . . Turk. This Mineral Is Found In The Long Narrow Valley Of The Ooroo Or Oru, A Tributary Of The Ningthe Or Kyendwen, Some 50 Or Go Miles West Of Mogoung. It Is Dug Up ...
Yusufzai
Yusufzai, An Afghan Tribe On The N.w. Frontier Of India, Partly Within And In Part Be Yond The British Border. It Comprises The Inde Pendent Districts Of Swat And Buner To The North Of The Flazarno And Maliaban Range Of Mountains, And The Level Plains To The South Of The ...
Z End
Z End Is Described To Have Been The Acliremenian Or Old Persian. Until Recent Years, Orientalists Have Differed As To The Existende Of Any Such Language As That Called Zend ; But The Prevalence Of This Language Is Now Universally Admitted. The Term Zend Means Commentary Or Explanation, And Was ...
Zalacca
Zalacca, A Genus Of Palms Occurring In Malacca, Penang,, Assam, And The Tenasserirn Provinces. The Leaves Are Employed As Thatch And For Baskets, Etc. Zalacca Affinis, Found At Malacca Near Ching, Where It Is.known Under The Name Of Salak Batool, Which Means The True Salak. Zalacca Assamica Wall.; Is A ...
Zamorin
Zamorin, A Titular Chief Of Calicut, The Samari, Descendant Of A Royal Family Who Ruled Over Territeries Now Comprised In The Greater Part Of The Collectorate Of Malabar. The Title Is Also Said To Be A Dialectal Change Front Semi Rama (semiramis), Also From Samudri Or Tainudri, See King. By ...
Zanzibar
Zanzibar, An Island On The E. Coast Of Africa, In Lat. 6° 9' S., And Long. 39° 14' 10"e., Which Gives Its Name To A Territory On The Mainland Adjoining. It And The Greater Part Of The Eastern Coast Of Africa Were Conquered By The Portuguese In The Beginning Of ...
Zaratiiustra Spitama
Zaratiiustra Spitama, Tho Zoroaster Of Europe. According To Chevalier Bunsen, Lie Appeared In The Reign Of Vistaspa, A Bactrian King, Towards The Year 3000 U.c. Firdusi, In The Shah Ntunah, Gi‘w His Ern As (luring The Reign Of Guslitaspi. Another Author Makes Him A Contem Porary Of Moses. Spitama Was ...
Zaydee
Zaydee, A Buddhist Pagoda, Is From The Pali Chaitya, And Is Also Called Payalt. The Greatest Of These Religious Structures Are The Shoay - Dag•on In Rangoon, Tho Lotus Shrine Shoay Maw-daw At Pegu, Shoay San-daw For The Sacred Hair At Prome, And The Maha-myat-mune Temple In Mandalay. A Prominent ...
Zimmay
Zimmay Is The Northernmost Shan State Tributary To Siam, And Lies About Three Weeks' Journey From Moulmein, And Forty (lays' From Bangkok. The Prince Or Chief Of Zitumay Is Nominally Subordinate To The King Of Siam, To Whom A Yearly Tribute Of Very Trifling Value Is Paid. In Reality, However, ...
Zodiac
Zodiac. The Following Are The Sanskrit Ilall1cs Of Tho Signs Of The Zodiac, With The Months And The Corresponding Astronomical Periods :— Sign. Mum Month. D. H. La. Mesha Aries), Vaisakh, 30 22 12'8 Vrisha Taurus), Jyesht, 31 9 40.8 Mithuna Gemini), 1 Ashadh, 31 14 39'2 Karkata Cancer), Sravan, ...
Zoophyte
Zoophyte, From The Greek Zeeov, Animal, And (dtprov, A Plant. The Characteristic Example Of This Class Of Creatures Is To Be Seen In The Coral, And Authors Divide Them Into I. Protozoa, Including Infusoria, Foraminifera, And Spongiadm. Ii. Polypifera, Including The Hydrm, Sertularia, And Pennatularia. Iii. Echinodermata, Or Sea-urchins And ...