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The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 1 (of 3)

Note 525 — Chapter I · (continued 3)

David Shea translation

A word not in the dictionaries; if derivable from बाण bána, “an arrow,” it may signify “an archer, head-archer;” if from बाणी bání, “speech,” it may be “a speaker, an orator.”—A. T.

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