Lexicographical Neighbors of Ankush
Literary usage of Ankush
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Development of Africa by Arthur Silva White, Ernest George Ravenstein (1890)
"... since, in all the pictures of them, the drivers are represented as carrying
in their hand the Indian ankush. As a pendant to the export-trade in ivory, ..."
2. The Menageries.: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects by James Rennie, William Ogilby, Charles Knight (1831)
"But the ankush of the mind is true wisdom, which sees into the vanity of all
worldly things *." It is generally as long as six months before the elephant is ..."
3. Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for Government by Benjamin Lewis Rice (1897)
"When at Delhi he is said to have defeated in the presence of the court a celebrated
prize-fighter, named ankush Khan, who had affixed a sword to the gate of ..."
4. Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society by James Prinsep (1840)
"... from ankush, the instrument used by the Mahout to guide the elephant ; probably
a symbol marked on the coin ? This rupee appears from KELLY,8 tables to ..."
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