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Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia : vol.3 | |
インドおよび高地アジアへの科学調査隊派遣の成果 : vol.3 |
216 LOHARGAÛ MÂCHA KHABAB.
Lohâ,rgâ,II, in Bândelkhand, Lat. 24°, Long. 80° 1:15 )t. )J Hind.
"Smith's village."
Anal. Lohar-kôt, in Kâmaon, Lat. 29°, Long. 79°.
L o h i t, a river in Assam Sanskr.
"The red (river)." Name of the Brahmaputra river, in allusion to the colour of its suspensions in Upper Assam, where this name is still the name most used; in the lower part of its course the colour of the river becomes more yellowish. See B r ah m ap u t ra, for the other names of this river.
Lon", properly L â v a n i , a river in Raj vara .... tsy properly Kg it Hind., Sanskr.
"The saltish (river)." A river in Tirhüt bears the same name.
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L u n g m a r, a river in Pangkông lrj~' ~1~ klung-dmar. Tib.
"The red river, or red river bed." Klung, river, or here also river bed; the river has no water, being above the present level of the salt-lake Tsomognalari.
ma, in the Khassia hills Khassia.
"Stone." In the Khassia hills this word is frequently used as a component part of geographical names, and refers then to the groups of pillars, more or less rude, which are erected as memorials, chiefly of treaties. As similar instances I quote the following, in the environs of Cherrapunji, Lat. 25°, Long. 92°:-
M a - f l o n g. Fl on g, grassy, probably referring to the environs of the pillars, in opposition to such which are erected on bare rocks.
Mâ-mlu, the salt stone. With the Khassias one mode of oath-taking is to eat salt from the point of a sword.
MA-smai. SmAi, oath. (For Ma-smai and Ma-flong, I also occasionally heard Mu-smai and Mû-flong.)
Mâcha Khabab river, also Mapcha Khabâb,
• in Nepal ~l ' gr 7 .7:1••••
rma-bya-kha-bab. Tib.
"Flowing out from the mouth of a peacock." Rma-bya, peacock; kha, mouth; bab is the preterite of 'bab - po, descended.
It is a Buddhist name of the Karnali river, without any direct connection with the topographical character of the country.
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