Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9134

c. 150.—“*Συραστρηνῆς . . . Συράστρα κώμη Μοηόγλωσσοη ἐμπόριον . . .*”—*Ptolemy, VII. i. 3.*