A History of the Mahrattas v1.c12.33

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¹ [A long brass horn, giving a hideous and strident sound, which is used at funerals in the Peninsula (Deccan and Southern India). Anglo-Indians corrupted the name into Cholera-horn. Herklot (Qanoon-e-Islam) states that Tooree, or Toorrtooree, commonly designated by Europeans ‘collery-horn,’ consists of three pieces fixed into one another, of a semi-circular shape. (Yule’s Hobson-Jobson, s.v. Collery-Horn.) Tooree is the Kanarese word Tūrya (a horn), and may be identical with Tarai in Tamil (mentioned in Dubois and Beauchamp, ed. 1899, p. 503). Collery (plur. Colleries) is also the Anglo-Indian corruption of Kallar, a non-Aryan tribe of professional robbers inhabiting a tract to the east of Madura. (Yule, Hobson-Jobson, ed. 1903, p. 236.)]