Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c9.t3.2

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Armenian Musalmān and Byzantine historians, rest upon the Indian Yethāl or Jethāl if not a Yetha or Jetha. Nor does there seem any reason why Yetha the Chinese form of the word should be less likely to be adopted in India than the western and after all the correct form Tatal or Haitāl. In any case the popular change from a correct Yethāl to an incorrect Yetha cannot be of much importance, if, as seems likely, the change was made to give the word an Indian meaning. The *r* is Jethāl may well be added when the origin from a chief named Jetha was forgotten.