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332   SING-IRANICA

Sanskrit mallikâ (Jasminum sambac), Tibetan mal-li-ka, Siamese ma-li,' Khmer maly or mlih, Cam molih. Malayan melati is derived from Sanskrit mâlati, which refers to Jasminum grandiflorum. Mongol melirge is independent. Hirth's identification with Syriac molo 2 must be rejected.

  1.  t san-mo, *san-mwat (Fukien mwak). This word is given in the Nan fan tstao mu cwan3 as a synonyme of Lawsonia alba, furnishing the henna; but a confusion has here arisen, for the transcription does not answer to any foreign name of Lawsonia, but apparently corresponds to Arabic zanbaq (" jasmine"), from which the botanical term sambac is derived. It is out of the question that this word was known to Ki Han : it is clearly an interpolation in his text.

  2.  tri AV man hwa ("man flower ") occurs in Buddhist literature, and is apparently an abridgment of Sanskrit sumand (Jasminum grandiflorum), which has been adopted into Persian as saman or saman.

Jasminum officinale occurs in Kashmir, Kabul, Afghanistan, and Persia; in the latter country also in the wild state.

Jasmine is discussed in Pahlavi literature (above, p. 192) and in the Persian pharmacopoeia of Abu Mansur.' C `an Te noticed the flower in the region of Samarkand.' It grows abundantly in the province of Fars in Persia.'

Oil of jasmine is a famous product among Arabs and Persians, being styled in Arabic duhn az-zanbaq. Its manufacture is briefly described in Ibn al-Baitar's compilation.' According to Istaxri, there is in the province of Darâ,bejird in Persia an oil of jasmine that is to be found nowhere else. Sâ.bûr and Sirâz were renowned for the same product.'

The oil of jasmine manufactured in the West is mentioned in the Yu yan tsa tsu as a tonic. It was imported into China during the Sung

period, as we learn from the Wei ho   g,9 written by Kao Se-sun
rp ELI , who lived toward the end of the twelfth and in the beginning of the thirteenth century. Here it is stated, " The ye-si-min flower is a flower of the western countries, snow-white in color. The Hu I (Iranians or foreigners) bring it to Kiao-cou and Canton, and every one

1 PALLEGOIX, Description du royaume Thai, Vol. I, p. 147.

2Journal Am. Or. Soc., Vol. XXX, 191o, p. 23.

Ch. B, p. 3. See below, P. 334.

4 ACHUNDOW, Abu Mansur, p. 147.

6 BRETSCHNEIDER, Mediæval Researches, Vol. I, p. 131.

6 G. LE STRANGE, Description of the Province of Fars, p. 51.

7 L. LECLERC, Traité des simples, Vol. II, p. I.

8 P. SCHWARZ, Iran, pp. 52, 94, 97, 165.

9 Ch. 9, p. 9.