Chapter CHOWRYBURDAR to CHUCKLAH of C by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

carried by a company of Mahommedan Fakirs whom he met at Sherpur in Guzerat. See also Lt.-Col. T. Lewin, A Fly, &c., p. 47: [Egerton, Handbook, Pl. 15, No. 64].

1516.—“In the Kingdom of Dely…they have some steel wheels which they call chacarani, two fingers broad, sharp outside like knives, and without edge inside; and the surface of these is the size of a small plate. And they carry seven or eight of these each, put on the left arm; and they take one and put it on the finger of the right hand, and make it spin round many times, and so they hurl it at their enemies.”—Barbosa, 100-101.

1630.—“In her right hand shee bare a chuckerey, which is an instrument of a round forme, and sharp-edged in the superficies thereof…and slung off, in the quickness of his motion, it is able to deliuer or conuey death to a farre remote enemy.”—Lord, Disc. of the Banian Religion, 12.

(b) v. and s. To lunge a horse. H. chakarna or chakar karna. Also ‘the lunge.’

1829.—“It was truly tantalizing to see those fellows chuckering their horses, not more than a quarter of a mile from our post.”—John Shipp, i. 153.


[(c.) In Polo, a ‘period.’ [1900.—“Two bouts were played to-day…In the opening chukker Capt.—carried the ball in.”—Overland Mail, Aug. 13.]

CHUCKERBUTTY, n.p. This vulgarized Bengal Brahman name is, as Wilson points out, a corruption of chakravartti, the title assumed by the most exalted ancient Hindu sovereigns, an universal Emperor, whose chariot-wheels rolled over all (so it is explained by some).

c. 400.—“Then the Bikshuni Uthala began to think thus with herself, ‘To-day the King, ministers, and people are all going to meet Buddha…but I—a woman—how can I contrive to get the first sight of him?’ Buddha immediately, by his divine power, changed her into a holy Chakravartti Raja.”—Travels of Fah- hian, tr. by Beale, p. 63.

c. 460.—“On a certain day (Asoka), having…ascertained that the supernaturally gifted…Nága King, whose age extended to a Kappo, had seen the four Buddhas…he thus addressed him: ‘Beloved, exhibit to me the person of the omniscient being of infinite wisdom, the Chakkawatti of the doctrine.”—The Mahawanso, p. 27.

1856.—“The importance attached to the possession of a white elephant is traceable to the Buddhist system. A white elephant of certain wonderful endowments is one of the seven precious things, the possession of which marks the Maha Chakravartti Raja…the holy and universal sovereign, a character which appears once in a cycle.”—Mission to the Court of Ava (Major’s Phayre’s), 1858, p. 154.

CHUCKLAH, s. H. chakla, [Skt. chakra, ‘a wheel’]. A territorial subdivision under the Mahommedan government, thus defined by Warren Hastings, in the paper quoted under CHOWDRY:

1752.—“The jurisdiction of a Phojdar (see FOUJDAR), who receives the rents from the Zemindars, and accounts for them with the Government.”

1760.—“In the treaty concluded with the Nawáb Meer Mohummud Cásim Khán, on the 27th Sept. 1760, it was agreed that…the English army should be ready to assist him in the management of all affairs, and that the lands of the chuklahs (districts) of Burdwan, Midnapore and Chittagong, should be assigned for all the charges of the company and the army.…”—Harington’s Analysis of the Laws and Regulations, vol. i. Calcutta, 1805-1809, p. 5.