[42]. Here the Hindu mixes Persian with his Sanskrit, and produces the mongrel dialect Hindi.
[43]. Takht, Pat, Persian and Sanskrit, alike meaning board.
[44]. The Ephesian Diana is the twin sister of Gauri, and can have a Sanskrit derivation in Devianna, ‘the goddess of food,’ contracted Deanna, though commonly Anna-de or Anna-devi, and Annapurna, ‘filling with food,’ or the nourisher, the name applied by ‘the mother of mankind,’ when she places the repast before the messenger of heaven:
“Heavenly Stranger, please to taste
These bounties, which our Nourisher, from whom
All perfect good, unmeasured out, descends,
To us for food and for delight, hath caused
The earth to yield.”
Paradise Lost, Bk. v. 397-401.
[Diana is the feminine form of Dianus, Janus.]