[35] Sir James Frazer in Attis, Adonis, Osiris, ii. p. 241.
[36] Book IV., chap. lxxv., quoted in Lane’s Modern Egyptians, p. 347.
[37] Lane, Modern Egyptians, p. 348.
[38] Eastern India, iii. p. 163.
[39] Sir G. Watt’s Commercial Products of India, s.v. Nicotiana.
[40] Ind. Ant., January 1911, p. 39.
[41] Tobacco is no doubt a derivative from some American word, and Platts derives the Hindi tanbāku or tambāku from tobacco. The fact that tanbāku is also Persian for tobacco militates against the Sanskrit derivation suggested by Mr. Ganpat Rai and others, and tends to demonstrate its American importation.