[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) › c10.9002 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9002 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9002 - **Language:** English ### [c10.9002](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9002) c. A.D. 90.—“. . . Getting rid of the fibrous parts, they take the leaves and double them up into little balls, which they stitch through with the fibres of the withes. And these they divide into three classes. . . And thus originate the three qualities of Malabathrum, which the people who have prepared them carry to India for sale.”—Periplus, near the end. \[Also see Yule, Intro. Gill, River of Golden Sand, ed. 1883, p. 89.\] - [Previous: c10.9001](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9001) - [Next: c10.9003](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9003) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9002](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9002) · Pramāṇa