Chapter MOOCHY to MOONGA of M by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

… The Agent informed ‘that ’twas called Arundee, made neither with cotton nor silke, but of a kind of Herba spun by a worme that feeds upon the leaves of a stalke or tree called Arundee which bears a round prickly berry, of which oyle is made; vast quantitys of this cloth is made in the country about Goora Ghaut beyond Seripore Mercha; where the wormes are kept as silke wormes here; twill never come white, but will take any colour’ ” &c.—Ft. St. Geo. Agent on Tour, Consn., Nov. 19. In Notes and Exts., No. iii. p. 58. Arandi or rendi is the castor-oil plant, and this must be the Attacus ricini, Jones, called in H. Arrindi, Arrindiaria (?) and in Bengali Eri, Eria, Erindy, according to Forbes Watson’s Nomenclature, No. 8002, p. 371. [For full details see Allen, Mono. pp. 5, seqq.].

1763.—“No duties have ever yet been paid on Lacks, Mugga-dooties, and other goods brought from Assam.”—In Van Sittart, i. 249.

c. 1778.—“… Silks of a coarse quality, called Moonga dutties, are also brought from the frontiers of China for the Malay trade.”—Hon. R. Lindsay, in Lives of the Lindsays, iii. 174.