[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) › c10.633 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.633 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.633 - **Language:** English ### [c10.633](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.633) \*\*AVATAR\*\*, s. Skt. \*Avatāra\*, an incarnation on earth of a divine Being. This word first appears in Baldaeus (1672) in the form \*Autaar\* (\*Afgoderye\*, p. 52), which in the German version generally quoted in this book takes the corrupter shape of \*Altar\*. - [Previous: c10.632](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.632) - [Next: c10.634](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.634) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.633](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.633) · Pramāṇa