Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 3): Route-book of the western parts of the Himálaya, Tibet, and Central Asia: and geographical glossary from the languages of India and Tibet, including the phonetic transcription and interpretation (Leipzig, 1863)

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SHALONG-SH1KAKPUK.

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bnalong, in Kamaon, Lat. 30°, Long. SO0......... ~PjT^]^ slia-slong. Tib.

uTlie place where the deer rise." Sha, a deer; slong, to rise.

Fine meadows, a likely place for deer, though now they are said to be scarcely ever
seen there.

Sham sab ad, in Malva, Lat. 23°, Long. 78°............. oL! u^+.co Arab. Pers.

"Sun's town."

Anal. Shamsgarh, in Malva, Lat. 23°, Long. 77°.

Shamshirnagar, in Bahar, Lat, 25°, Long. 84°.......... ^j j^+a Pers. Hind.

"Shamshir's town." Shamshir, sivord, is here a Persian personal name.

Shangshung, a district in Gnari Khorsum .... (3^T(<3^ zhang-zhung. Tib.

This is an ancient name of the district of Guge. If we are allowed to view Shang Shung
as a phonetic modification of Zhong Zhong, which is translated in Schmidt's "Dictionary,1'
p. 494, by excavated, uneven, it might be connected with the deep cuttings and erosions of
the rivers, and translated by eroded country.

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Skarba Tso, a lake in Balti, Lat.35°, Long.76° (3^TZ3T£!o& zhar-ba-JKtsrho. Tib.
uTlie blind lake." Zhar-ba, blind; mts'ho, lalce.

The blindness is referred to the form of an eye, sunk in and blind; the depression of
the lake, and its difference from its former level is here significantly alluded to.

Shayok, Tsangbocliii.

Shergarh, in Bahar, Lat, 24°, Long. 83°............... .»jS ^-yi Pers. Hind.

"Sher's, or the lion's fort." In the Panjab the word slier is also used for tiger. The
same name in Lat, 22°, Long. 76°, Lat. 26°, Long. 76°, Lat, 28°, Long. 79°.

Anal. Sher-khan-vala, in the Panjab, Lat, 30°, Long. 74°; Sher-kot, in Hindostan, Lat. 24°,
Long. 84°; another modification of this name is Sher-ghatti, in Bahar, Lat. 24°, Long. 84°;
Sher-pur, in Bahar, Lat. 25°, Long. 83°.

Shibganj, in Bengal, Lat, 24°, Long. 88°......... ^jS ^ (VH'I^ Pen-.

"Siva's market."

Anal. Shibpur, in Bengal, Lat. 21°, Long. 87°.

Shikarpur, also Shikaripur, in Maissur, Lat. 14°, Long. 75° ^.j ^K-ci Pers. Hind.

"Hunter's town " The same name in Lat. 14°, Long. 75°, Lat. 18°, Long. 74°, Lat. 26°,
Long. 87°, Lat. 28°, Long. 78°, Lat. 29°, Long. 77°, &c.