[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.12972 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12972 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12972 - **Language:** English ### [c10.12972](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12972) ∗ Like the Βαιτύλιον which the Greeks got through the Semitic nations. In Photius there are extracts from Damascius (\*Life of Isidorus the Philosopher\*), which speak of the stones called \*Baitulos\* and \*Baitulion\*, which were objects of worship, gave oracles, and were apparently used in healing. These appear, from what is stated, to have been meteoric stones. There were many in Lebanon (see \*Phot. Biblioth.\*, ed. 1653, pp. 1047, 1062-3). - [Previous: c10.12971](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12971) - [Next: c10.12973](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12973) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12972](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12972) · Pramāṇa