Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.16001

[c. 1630.—“Being past the Element of Fire and the highest Orbs (as saith their Zundavastaio) . . .” —Sir T. Herbert, 2nd ed. 1677, p. 54.]