Chapter DAGON to DALAWAY of D by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

DALA, n.p. This is now a town on the (west) side of the river of Rangoon, opposite to that city. But the name formerly applied to a large province in the Delta, stretching from the Rangoon River westward.

1546.—See Pinto, under DAGON.

1585.—“The 2d November we came to the city of Dala, where among other things there are 10 halls full of elephants, which are here for the King of Pegu, in charge of various attendants and officials.”—Gasp. Balbi, f. 95.

DALAWAY, s. In S. India the Commander-in-chief of an army; [Tam. talavay, Skt. dala, ‘army,’ vah, ‘to lead’]; Can. and Mal. dhalavay and dalavayi. Old Can. dhala, H. dal, ‘an army.’

1615.—“Caeterum Deleuaius…vehementer à rege contendit, ne comitteret vt vllum condenda nova hac urbe Arcomaganensis portus antiquissimus detrimentum caperet.”—Jarric, Thesaurus, i. p. 179.

1700.—“Le Talavai, c’est le nom qu’on donne au Prince, qui gouverne aujourd’hui le Royaume sous l’autorité de la Reine.”—Lettres Edif. x. 162. See also p. 173 and xi. 90.

c. 1747.—“A few days after this, the Dulwai sent for Hydur, and seating him on a musnud with himself, he consulted with him on the re- establishment of his own affairs, complaining bitterly of his own distress for want of money.”—H. of Hydur Naik, 44. (See also under DHURNA.)

1754.—“You are imposed on, I never wrote to the Maissore King or Dalloway any such thing, nor they to me; nor had I a knowledge of any agreement between the Nabob and the Dallaway.”—Letter from Gor. Saunders of Madras to French Deputies in Cambridge’s Acct. of the War, App. p. 29.

1763-78.—“He (Haidar) has lately taken the King (Mysore) out of the hands of his Uncle, the Dalaway.”—Orme, iii. 636.

[1810.—“Two manuscripts…preserved in different branches of the family of the ancient Dulwoys of Mysoor.”—Wilks, Mysore, Pref. ed. 1869, p. xi.]