Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12980

c10.12980

**SALOOTREE, SALUSTREE**, s. Hind. *Sálotar*, *Sálotrī*. A native farrier or horse-doctor. This class is now almost always Mahommedan. But the word is taken from the Skt. name *Sálihotra*, the original owner of which is supposed to have written in that language a treatise on the Veterinary Art, which still exists in a form more or less modified and imperfect. "A knowledge of Sanskrit must have prevailed pretty generally about this time (14th century), for there is in the Royal Library at Lucknow a work on the veterinary art, which was translated from the Sanskrit by order of Ghiyásu-d dín Muhammad Sháh Khiljí. This rare book, called *Kurrutu-l-Mulk*, was translated as early as A.H. 783 (A.D. 1381), from an original styled *Sálotar*, which is the name of an Indian, who is said to have been a Bráhman, and the tutor of Susruta. The Preface says the translation was made 'from the barbarous Hindi into the refined Persian,