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D h a r a in p tir, in Upper Assam, Lat. 26°, Long. 93°    ».. i.1s0v Hind.

"Dhdram's town, or the town of justice." Dharam, Sanskrit dharma, justice, is frequently used in proper names, and is especially a surname of Yam a, god of the Orkus.

Anal. Dharam-pari, in the Dékhan, Lat. 17°, Long. 740, in Mâlva, Lat. 22°, Long. 75°.

D h a r a m s tI l a, in Nepal, Lat. 29°, Long. 81°    5j1.,,, , so v Hind.

"house of Justice."

The same name in Malva, Lat. 23°, Long. 69°, and in the Pânjab, Lat. 33°, Long. 74°.

This denomination is also frequently used for the public buildings serving as dâ,k bangalos, or rest-houses for travellers.

Dhâram Singhka Kula, in the Pänjab, Lat. 31°,Long. 73° (LW   r.).sav Hind. Arab.

"Dhdram Singh's Castle." Dharam Singh, Lion of justice, a man's name; ka, possessive suffix; k l a, castle.

D h a v a l a g u r i, a mountain in Nepal, Lat. 29°, Long. 82°    —461.11 Sanskr.

"The white mountain."

D h d l p u r, in Hindostan, Lat. 26°, Long. 78    iy j .S v Hind.

"White town." D h ô 1 is a contraction for dhavala as Gangôtri for Gangavatari, &c.

Di is the first syllable in many of the river names in Upper Assam, such as Dibông, Dibru, Digaru, Dihing, Dihang (= Tsangbocha, not Brahmapatra), &c. It is not a Tibetan word, but means water, or river, in the language of the tribes near Sadhia; I could not, however, obtain any explanation of the etymology of the second component part of these river names.

Diâmar, see Nânga Parbât.

Dibrugdrh, in Upper Assam, Lat. 26°, Long. 95°     ,.sc ,v Hind.

"The fort or settlement on the Dibru (river)." The Dibru river is an affluent of the Brahmapatra, or Lohit.

D i g a r chi, the capital of the province Tsang in

Eastern Tibet, Lat. 29°, Long. 89°     p ' 79 V   bzhi-ka-rtse Tib.

"The four housed (top?)." Bzhi, four; ka, column, pillar, metaphorically for house; rtse, the upper part, top of any thing.

Mr. Hodgson (Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Vol. XXV., p. 504) interpretes it as the four housed, and quotes the Nevari mode of spelling it, zhi-kha-chhen, as an additional instance of the family identity of Nevari and Tibetan. He remarks at the same time that "the Tibetan "ka, the generic sign for house, is represented in Nevari by kha, as is e n by c h h e n, "though khyim be now the commoner form for house' in written Tibetan."

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