Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s7.t2.76

v2.c27.s7.t2.76

authority: so it is the usual name of that article in Persian. *Mummy* is probably thence derived. I remember playing a trick on old Silu, our *khabardar* [spy] at Sindhia’s camp, who had been solicited to obtain a piece of *momiai* for a chieftain’s wife. As we are supposed to possess everything valuable in the healing art, he would take no refusal; so I substituted a piece of indiarubber. [For the virtues of *momiāi* see Crooke, *Popular Religion and Folklore of N. India*, ii. 176 ff.] ¹ [*Barilla*, Watt, *Econ. Prod.* 112 f.] ² [*Morinda citrifolia*, ibid. 783 f.] ³ [*Madder, Rubia cordifolia*, ibid. 926 f.]