Chapter BRINJAUL to BROACH of B by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

Egyptians, ed. 1860, 299.

1860.—“Amongst other triumphs of the native cuisine were some singular, but by no means inelegant chefs d’œuvre, brinjals boiled and stuffed with savoury meats, but exhibiting ripe and undressed fruit growing on the same branch.”—Tennent’s Ceylon, ii. 161. This dish is mentioned in the Sanskrit Cookery Book, which passes as by King Nala. It is managed by wrapping part of the fruit in wet cloths whilst the rest is being cooked.

BROACH, n.p. Bharoch, an ancient and still surviving city of Guzerat, on the River Nerbudda. The original forms of the name are Bhrigu-kachchha, and Bharu-Kachchha, which last form appears in the Sunnar Cave Inscription No. ix., and this was written with fair correctness by the Greeks as Barugaza and Bargósh. “Illiterate Guzerattees would in attempting to articulate Bhreeghoo-Kshetra (sic), lose the half in coalescence, and call it Barigache.”—Drummond, Illus. of Guzerattee, &c.

c. B.C. 20.—“And then laughing, and stript naked, anointed and with his loin-cloth on, he leaped upon the pyre. And this inscription was set upon his tomb: Zarmanochegas the Indian from Bargóse having rendered himself immortal after the hereditary custom of the Indians lieth here.”—Nicolaus Damascenus, in Strabo, xv. 72. [Lassen takes the name Zarmanochegas to represent the Skt. Srámanácharya, teacher of the Srámanas, from which it would appear that he was a Buddhist priest.]

c. A.D. 80—“On the right, at the very mouth of the gulf, there is a long and narrow strip of shoal.… And if one succeeds in getting into the gulf, still it is hard to hit the mouth of the river leading to Barygaza, owing to the land being so low … and when found it is difficult to enter, owing to the shoals of the river near the mouth. On this account there are at the entrances fishermen employed by the King … to meet ships as far off as Syrastrene, and by these they are piloted up to Barygaza.”—Periplus, sect. 43. It is very interesting to compare Horsburgh with this ancient account. “From the sands of Swallow to Broach a continued bank extends along the shore, which at Broach river projects out about 5 miles.… The tide flows here … velocity 6 knots … rising nearly 30 feet.… On the north side of the river, a great way up, the town of Broach is situated; vessels of considerable burden may proceed to this place, as the

channels are deep in many places, but too intricate to be navigated without a pilot.”—India Directory (in loco).

c. 718.—Barús is mentioned as one of the places against which Arab attacks were directed. —See Elliot, i. 441.

c. 1300.—“… a river which lies between the Sarsut and Ganges … has a south-westerly course till it falls into the sea near Bahrúch.”—Al-Biruni, in Elliot, i. 49.

A.D. 1321.—“After their blessed martyrdom, which occurred on the Thursday before Palm Sunday, in Thana of India, I baptised about 90 persons in a certain city called Parocco, 10 days’ journey distant therefrom …”—Friar Jordanus, in Cathay, &c., 226.

1552.—“A great and rich ship said to belong to Meleque Gupij, Lord of Baroche.” —Barros, II. vi. 2.

1555.—“Sultan Ahmed on his part marched upon Baruj.”—Sidi ’Ali, 85.

[1615.—“It would be necessary to give credit unto two or three Guzzaratts for some cloth to make a voyage to Burrouse.”— Foster, Letters, iv. 94.]

1617.—“We gave our host … a peece of backar baroche to his children to make them 2 coates.”—Cocks’s Diary, i. 330. [Backar here seems to represent a port connected with Broach, called in the Ain (ii. 243) Bhankora or Bhakor; Bayley gives Bhakorah as a village on the frontier of Gujerat.]

1623.—“Before the hour of complines … we arrived at the city of Barochi, or Behrug as they call it in Persian, under the walls of which, on the south side, flows a river called Nerbedà.”—P. della Valle, ii. 529; [Hak. Soc. i. 60].

1648.—In Van Twist (p. 11), it is written Broichia.

[1676.—“From Surat to Baroche, 22 coss.”—Tavernier, ed Ball, i. 66.]

1756.—“Bandar of Bhroch.”—(Bird’s tr. of) Mirat-i-Ahmadi, 115.

1803.—“I have the honour to enclose… papers which contain a detailed account of the … capture of Baroach.”—Wellington, ii. 289.