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From Adam's Peak to Elephanta

Note 6 — Chapter XVII · BOMBAY.

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As a curiosity of derivation it appears that these two words hemp and ganja are from the same root: Sanskrit goni, ganjika; Persian, Greek and Latin, cannabis; French chanvre; German Hanf; Dutch hennep. Canvas also is the same word.

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