[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) › c10.13043 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.13043 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.13043 - **Language:** English ### [c10.13043](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.13043) It has been a question how the \*Pterocarpus santalina\* came to be called sandal-wood at all. We may suggest, as a possible origin of this, the fact that its powder "mixed with oil is used for bathing and purifying the skin" (\*Drury\*, s.v.), much as the true sandal-wood powder also is used in the East. - [Previous: c10.13042](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.13042) - [Next: c10.13044](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.13044) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.13043](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.13043) · Pramāṇa