[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) › c10.300 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.300 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.300 - **Language:** English ### [c10.300](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.300) De Gubernatis has indeed suggested that the word amouchi was derived from the Skt. amokshya, ‘that cannot be loosed’; and this would be very consistent with several of the passages which we shall quote, in which the idea of being ‘bound by a vow’ underlies the conduct of the persons to whom the term was applicable both in Malabar and in the Archipelago. But amokshya is a word unknown to Malayālam, in such a sense at least. - [Previous: c10.299](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.299) - [Next: c10.301](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.301) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.300](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.300) · Pramāṇa