[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) › c10.15842 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15842 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15842 - **Language:** English ### [c10.15842](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15842) The article was no doubt the famous ‘Indian Steel,’ the \*σίδηρος Ἰνδικὸς\* καὶ \*στρόμωμα\* of the \*Periplus\*, the material of the Indian swords celebrated in many an Arabic poem, the \*alhinde\* of old Spanish, the \*hundwānī\* of the Persian traders, \*ondanique\* of Marco Polo, the iron exported by the Portuguese in the 16th century from Baticalà (see \*BATCUL\*) in Canara and other parts (see \*Correa\* passim). In a letter of the King to the Goa Government in 1591 he animadverts on the great amount of iron and steel permitted to be exported from Chaul, for sale on the African coast and to the Turks in the Red Sea (\*Archiv. Port. Orient.\*, Fasc. 3, 318). - [Previous: c10.15841](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15841) - [Next: c10.15843](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15843) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15842](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15842) · Pramāṇa