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List of Vernacular terms used in the Final Settlement Report,
Simla District,
WOBD.
Meaning.
Bagett ...
Bahdis ... ...
Baith ... ...
Bajba ... ...
A kind of red rice.
Carpenters.
Service ; farm work.
Spiked millet (Penicillaria spicata). Powell’s Punjab Pro-
Bakhil ..
Bathtj ...
Begami ...
Begab ... ...
duets, page 238.
Cultivated land, unirrigated but manured.
Amaranthus.
A superior kind of white rice.
Labour due to Government or to an owner by custom, or as
a condition of land tenure, usually not paid for, or paid
at low rates.
Bebseb ... ...
The land measure of Garhwal and Kumaon equal to 4.800
square yards (Garhwal Settlement Report, 1866, para-
Bhoj ... ...
graph 10).
A circuit of agricultural hamlets under joint engagement
for the land revenue of the whole circuit.
Biga
Aland measure equal to 711 square yards in the last
Settlement, and 900 square yards in the present Settle-
ment.
Biswa ... ...
Bbahmin ...
Changab
A land measure equalling 2*0 of a bigah.
Priestly caste of Hindus.
Poor sloping fields at a distance from the homestead, which
are neither irrigated nor manured.
Chabi ...
China ...
Chdmaes
Dal
Deota ...
Dhan
Dumnas... ...
Ghi
Gub
Ilaqa ... ...
JlNJAN ...
JuN
Green jowar (Sorghum vulgare).
Panicuni miliaceum. Powell’s Products, page 237.
Leather workers.
Name for all pulses when cooked for food.
Village god and its temple.
Rice (unhusked).
Basket makers ; also weave a coarse woollen cloth.
Clarified butter.
Juice of the sugarcane reduced to a compost.
A division of country.
A kind of red rice.
A measure of eapacity=16 pathas (which see) ; also used as
aland measure to describe the area of land which a jua of
Kacha (maund) ...
Kachalu
seed will sow, about four bigahs.
=16 seers.
The edible arum (A colocasia.) Powell’s Products, page
258.
Kadam ... ...
Kanets ...
A double pace measuring 4^ feet.
The principal tribe of agriculturists in the Simla district,
Hindus, who describe themselves as debased ltajputs.
Kangni... ...
Kabali ...
A millet (Pennisetum Italicum.)
Land at a distance from the homestead, and not regularly
manured.
Keo
A black bean (Doliehos Labial) Powell’s Products, page
241.
Khabif ... ...
KHATBI8
Autumn harvest.
A Hindu tribe of traders.
Simla District,
WOBD.
Meaning.
Bagett ...
Bahdis ... ...
Baith ... ...
Bajba ... ...
A kind of red rice.
Carpenters.
Service ; farm work.
Spiked millet (Penicillaria spicata). Powell’s Punjab Pro-
Bakhil ..
Bathtj ...
Begami ...
Begab ... ...
duets, page 238.
Cultivated land, unirrigated but manured.
Amaranthus.
A superior kind of white rice.
Labour due to Government or to an owner by custom, or as
a condition of land tenure, usually not paid for, or paid
at low rates.
Bebseb ... ...
The land measure of Garhwal and Kumaon equal to 4.800
square yards (Garhwal Settlement Report, 1866, para-
Bhoj ... ...
graph 10).
A circuit of agricultural hamlets under joint engagement
for the land revenue of the whole circuit.
Biga
Aland measure equal to 711 square yards in the last
Settlement, and 900 square yards in the present Settle-
ment.
Biswa ... ...
Bbahmin ...
Changab
A land measure equalling 2*0 of a bigah.
Priestly caste of Hindus.
Poor sloping fields at a distance from the homestead, which
are neither irrigated nor manured.
Chabi ...
China ...
Chdmaes
Dal
Deota ...
Dhan
Dumnas... ...
Ghi
Gub
Ilaqa ... ...
JlNJAN ...
JuN
Green jowar (Sorghum vulgare).
Panicuni miliaceum. Powell’s Products, page 237.
Leather workers.
Name for all pulses when cooked for food.
Village god and its temple.
Rice (unhusked).
Basket makers ; also weave a coarse woollen cloth.
Clarified butter.
Juice of the sugarcane reduced to a compost.
A division of country.
A kind of red rice.
A measure of eapacity=16 pathas (which see) ; also used as
aland measure to describe the area of land which a jua of
Kacha (maund) ...
Kachalu
seed will sow, about four bigahs.
=16 seers.
The edible arum (A colocasia.) Powell’s Products, page
258.
Kadam ... ...
Kanets ...
A double pace measuring 4^ feet.
The principal tribe of agriculturists in the Simla district,
Hindus, who describe themselves as debased ltajputs.
Kangni... ...
Kabali ...
A millet (Pennisetum Italicum.)
Land at a distance from the homestead, and not regularly
manured.
Keo
A black bean (Doliehos Labial) Powell’s Products, page
241.
Khabif ... ...
KHATBI8
Autumn harvest.
A Hindu tribe of traders.