Materia medica of Hindoostan, and artisan's and agriculturist's nomenclature / [Sir Whitelaw Ainslie].
- Whitelaw Ainslie
- Date:
- 1813
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Materia medica of Hindoostan, and artisan's and agriculturist's nomenclature / [Sir Whitelaw Ainslie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![, Ce Ae ; ‘ 7 i] : ¢ be bad a x 6 t i (; : i | a . WK ¢ AGP. |) PRE Fed €° Rs oN @° GS & , : 2 ©. \ Py A Be A ; nea | | ‘The nares given by the Natives tg.some artjcles of diet, fand other things neeessary fox the cor:fort.of sick, ] trust cannét but prove accep’aule to those ‘who may be un- — acquainted with the danyuages spdsen if the: provinces * ‘and the appellations bestowed on many of the materials employed in arts and manufgetures, have been added, simply with a view of rendering the work more generally usefal’ With respect to the Cata« logué »f Medical Books, in Tamool, Persian, Sanscrit,¢and Arabic, and which will, perhapscfrom its novelty, excite curiosity, 1, shall bijefly ‘state that, in making it out, the first authorities have been consulted. ¢ The Sanscrit names (Synonyms) for many of the articles, are so numerous, that there has been seme difficulty in making a selection ;‘a circumstance, which itis necessary to mention, as the reader will, no doubt, occasionally fird amongst them appellations that are not familiar to him ; and it is also to be observed, that, as in the wide range of | territory, in which the different oriental languages which appear inthis work, are spoken, there must, of necessity, be a variety of terms and dialects, the reader may, likewise, expect now and then to meet with spellings and terminations that he is not accustomed to. For such defeets there isno remedy. The Tamool and‘Telingoo I have adopted, is that of the most learned Hindoos of the Southern provinces of India, Brahmins, from € the Pagodas of Madura, Seringham and Tanjore: . W. Az <= 63> Gia ©c EXPLANATION or ruz ABBREVIATIONS USED in ruts WORK, an UTE c Tam, .Tamool ap “c Tec. Telingoo spe Dux..-——— Dukhanie H1nD,-—-—=== - Hindoostanie SANs. Sanscrit ARAB. Arabic ; Pers, Persian Can. Canarese (1.) Cyn, =—— Cyngalese Guz. Guzerattie af Matay Malay Jav. — Javanese Mat, ——— Malidlay (I.) ZLtzs necessary to remerk that this word applies equally to the language spoken in a great part ofthe Mysore country, and ta that of Canara (proper) on the Malabar Coust, o.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33279056_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
