78 WESTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



Onyxes^ Murrbini, or the ftone from which the Fafa Myrrbina, 

 •or drinking cups, which the Rowans let fo great a value 

 on, that 'T. Petronius had one which coft him ;iC- 35415 o^ 

 our money, were made "•''^ Thefe cups received their value 

 from their rich fculpture. Add to thefe mullins, Molocbina, 

 cottons dyed of the color of mallow flowers, and a great quan- 

 tity of common Othonium-) or courfe Dungarees. Some articles, 

 v/hich we cannot interpret, were brought through the neigh- 

 boring Scythia, or the Indo-Scythia, bordering on the Indus. I 

 fliall, in another place, give at one view the various articles 

 mutually exchanged by the merchants of India and of Europe 

 in antient times. I fhall here only fele6t a few Angular gifts, 

 fent as prefents to the monarch of Ozene, fuch as mufical inftru- 

 ments, filver veffels, and beautiful virgins for his majefty's Ze- 

 nana. Even in ihofe early times the merchants had their courfe 

 of exchange, and made great profit by the change of the golden 

 and filver denarii, for the money of the country t. 

 Madagee Sin- The kingdoms of Ougein, Agemir, part of the Malivab, and 

 ^^^' . Candeijb, is now in pofTeflion of the enterprizing M^bratta, Ma- 



dagee Sindia, who mxakes the capital of the firfl his refidence. 

 He was originally a Jagbiredar of the Poonab Mabrattas : a 

 yagbire means a grant of land from a fovereign to a fubjed:, re- 

 vokable at pleafure, bvit generally, or almoft always, for a 

 life rent. Sindia flung off his dependency, and makes quick 

 advances to coniiderable fovereignty. 

 LioM!. We have the evidence oijebangir, and the reverend Edward 



'terry, that- in their days the province of Makvab abounded 

 with lions. Jehang)r records, that he had killed feveral ; and 



• Plin- lib. XXX, c. 2. \ Airian, Periplus, 1,70. 



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