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It is not my intention however to assign a precise etymology; but in order to show the general analogy to known Sanskrit terms it may be allowed to instance Samuder, the ancient name of the capital of the Carnatik, afterwards called Bider; Samudra-duta, which occurs in the Hetopadesa, as signifying the ambassador of the sea; the compound formed of su, good, and matra, measure; and more especially the word samantara, which implying a boundary, intermediate, or what lies between, might be thought to apply to the peculiar situation of an island intermediate between two oceans and two straits.
These fashions pertain to none but Ma'an bin Zaidah! so let each one of us say somewhat of verse in his praise." Then quoth the first, "He heads his arrows with piles of gold, * And while shooting his foes is his bounty doled: Affording the wounded a means of cure, * And a sheet for the bider beneath the mould!" And quoth the second,
"I'm afraid I've made a mistake after all. I thought you were a little girl." "That needn't worry you. Everybody does," I replied. "I'm seventeen, but I shall be a mere Child until I come out." "Oh!" he said. "One day I am a Child in the nursery," I said. "And the next I'm grown up and ready to be sold to the highest Bider." "I beg your pardon, I "
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