Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.13080
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.13080
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c10.13080
1623.—"The Jesuites conceive that the Bramenes are of the dispersion of the Israelites, and their Bookes (called *Samescretan*) doe somewhat agree with the Scriptures, but that they understand them not."—*Purchas, Pilgrimage*, 559.