Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.13087
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.13087
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1694.—"*Indicus ludus Tchûpur*, sic nominatus veterum *Brachmanorum* linguâ Indicè dictâ *Sanscroot*, seu, ut vulgo, exiliori sono elegantiae causâ *Sanscreet*, non autem *Hanscreet* ut minus recte eam nuncupat *Kircherus*."—*Hyde*, *De Ludis Orientt.*, in *Syntagma Diss.* ii. 264.