Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12861

c10.12861

SADRAS, SADRASPATÁM, n.p. This name of a place 42 m. south of Madras, the seat of an old Dutch factory, was probably shaped into the usual form in a sort of conformity with Madras or Madraspatam. The correct name is Sadurai, but it is sometimes made into Sadrang- and Shatranj-patam. [The Madras Gloss. gives Tam. *Shathurangappaṭanam*, Skt. *chatur-anga*, ‘the four military arms, infantry, cavalry, elephants and cars.’] Fryer (p. 28) calls it Sandraslapatam, which is probably a misprint for Sandrastapatam.