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Anal. Darya-par, in Berar, Lat. 20°, Long. 77°, in Hindostan, Lat. 28°, Long. 78°; Däryakhan, in Hindostan, Lat. 31°, Long. 72°. De ri au, a dialectical modification of Darya, we very frequently found connected in Turkistan with the names of rivers; there it signified only river.

Darveshabâd, in Audh, Lat. 26°, Long. 80°     of   ,)J Hind.

"Town of the d a r v e s It e s" (dervishes), religious mendicants.

D s g â û, in Bengal, Lat. 23°, Long. 87°    ß.,;1S L v Hind.

"Ten villages."

Anal. Dits-nagar, in Bengal, Lat. 24°, Long. 91°; Däs-para, in Bengal, Lat. 23°, Long. 90°; Dâs-pur, in Bengal, Lat. 22°, Long. 87°.

D au d p.â t r a, a tribe inhabiting the southern banks of the Sàtlej I,. y ‘3,510 Arab. Hind. "David's sons." Davud, or Daud, David.

Anal. Daud Khel (khél, clan), in the Pânjab, Lat. 32°, Long. 71°; Daud-n ,gar, in Bändelkhand, Lat. 25°, Long. 84°; Daud-pur, in Orissa, Lat. 19°, Long. 83°, in Audh, Lat. 26°, Long. 81°.

Daulatabad, in Kandésh, Lat. 20°, Long. 75°    LT 5,.> Arab.   Pers.

"D a is l a is town, or town of wealth." D as l a t, riches, wealth, is also used as part of a proper name.

Anal. Daulat-ganj, in Bengal, Lat. 23°, Long. 88°; Daulat-garh, in Rajvara, Lat. 25°, Long. 74°; Daulat-par, in Malva, Lat. 22°, Long. 76°, in Sindh, Lat. 26°, Long. 68°, in Bandelkhand, Lat. 26°, Long. 78°, &c.; Daulat-vala (vala, village, town), in the Pânjab, Lat. 31°, Long. 70°.

D e b gram, in Bengal, Lat. 26°, Long. 88°    t4ZT41 (Sanskr.) Beng.

"God's village."

Dan, or D i 11 i, in Hindostan, Lat. 28°, Long. 77°     Ls.-10 or L,lsoo Pers.

"The threshold (of Hindostan?)"

I could not obtain any satisfactory details concerning the origin of this name.

D é k h a n, or D a k h i n, a province of India     ~ gSv Hind.

"Southern," from the Sanskrit rs~it d,kshina. About the former use of this name see Sir Erskine Perry, Bombay Br. As. Soc. 1853, p. 289; Col. Sykes, Phil. Transactions, and Klaproth, Foe Koue Ki, English translation, p. 319.

D e m i r T a s h, a mountain in Turkistan, Lat. 36°, Long. 78°. . . j;.lb r,.,,3 Turk.

"Iron stone." The natives referred this name to the hardness of the rock, a volcanic trap.

the first we met, 6 degrees of latitude to the north of India.

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