Acosta. I Ins is what Ona.^ in Chains' edition of tin- Aromata, 
says : '-Jun-.n* ol >r<<t>(< ^rows in gr -at abundance in the Arabian 
provinces or Mas/it an I Kail, at. The natives call it 'tf/W/^/r,' 
sew ais, •flirSctrW'f'r (JIi.shislijvlia.sal), that is lotion -rass 
. . . aud.the dowers '/*>«' . . . With the Indians no special 
name ha; ansai: hat th.-vdub it .M is • it erass, sour- dso Mecca 
grass, an I also Camel Hay. There are in those countries plenty 
1,1 'i- ■■«• '"] ah-, n ,-s ... ,, -.. which know no other folder. . . . 
It is imp aw I info India for ninlical purposes ; hut the o;re;wst 
'pmntiii-s come with the horse-dealers (of Mascat and Kalhat) who 
,UlCO lt tl!M - U P 1 ' 1 '" bundles with them in their ships to use it as 
litter for their horses . . . I remember that at Din thev sold 
many bundles of J uncus for a mere trifle ; . . . but the natives 
do not appreciate it, as they are a rough and savaw people, and 
they do not use it We, however, and the Arab and Persian 
1 " l ". : "j s ^"ploy it. The (Arab?) natives wash themselves and 
hat th > 
Arah a ad 
Persian doctors in 
ante /:■/ 
■nriAUr, 
r, as he renders it) 
IS Of 1 
•he Xi/iu 
t of Haiderabad, 
in [\x! 
re that tin- 
Mascat by Aucher 
■rh I en 
ny reference to its 
•e can be \v 
d doubt that Orta's 
ibsrnairio 
lly carreer. 
The horse trade 
in any ea- 
3e greatly reduced, 
sub 
the Indian Seas > 
''."• ' ,l y ' u !I J >' Hi v the import of 'Lzkhlr' into India 
1 " : ' ' ' ■- '"■'■• A-as also another reason; the Indian 
' VlU ' '" >: ' s l,r ": s ' M1 lluv fo'ind out that they not only had the 
=-i a- jtuss ir,.,wing m the Panjab, but also that it rune in its 
• ''earn, other indtwnous aromatic -r isses with which 
l ' 1 ",' ' ^Y^: 1 ' 1 l ^' bee; .reign article 
;,;,'';, . u ;' h \' l, -yu-d with. The influence of the Persian 
: , ,Y ' ?7 i of their pharmacopoeias were 
SO to transfer the foreign name ' /:*///>•' 
;,!• ..," n .!"V" l + ' -lI - r - -:" r '"I'.v was and still is the (,'. MmWiHtlm* 
d ,.>",,» s l'!,/ '"' IM ni "- I);,ZU '" ^'^■'""'V bur the natn> his 
\- . | r T ' '"/;. N \ ! : h '"* wttaout rlio nullifying epithet 'ajarai' 
' ~ *•>; iromatic grasses, so that it has become with 
. [/,: ^ ■ :,u ;r !; i-'- ;i, ' , - i ^ »*'»"■ Thus th... /-a/, ',,r the 
(1771 
; >nymoas_widi i; ^/,,;anl the author of the ^Makhxan- 
enumerates no fewer than six Hindi 
J seen that the vernaculai 
them vernaculars of G. Ma 
syiiouyiny . 
clature of the wpmJtty^ S?*™* as the sciyntific nomea 
J|TaleefSherif,tran,l.Pk y Fai °p 
1 Dymock, Ve^: 
Western India, e 
I (1885), p. 851. 
