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The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2

Note 1 — Chapter XI

Henry Yule translation

I formerly supposed Al-Ramni, the oldest Arabic name of Sumatra, to be a corruption of Lambri; but this is more probably of Hindu origin. One of the Dvípas of the ocean mentioned in the Puranas is called Rámaṇíyaka, “delightfulness.” (Williams’s Skt. Dict.)

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