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qu’ils prennent du consentement du Maistre de celuy dont ils achettent quelque chose.”—Mandelslo, Paris, 1659, 224.

[1679.—“The usuall Dustoore shall be equally divided.”—S. Master, in Kistna Man. 136.]

1680.—“It is also ordered that in future the Vakils (see VAKEEL), Mutsuddees (see MOOTSUDDY), or Writers of the Tagadgeers,¹ Dumiers, (?)² or overseers of the Weavers, and the Picars and Podars shall not receive any monthly wages, but shall be content with the Dustoor…of a quarter anna in the rupee, which the merchants and weavers are to allow them. The Dustoor may be divided twice a year or oftener by the Chief and Council among the said employers.”—Ft. St. Geo. Cons., Dec. 2. In Notes and Extracts, No. II. p. 61.

1681.—“For the farme of Dustoory on cooley hire at Pagodas 20 per annum received a part…(Pag.) 13 00 0.”—Ibid. Jan. 10; Ibid. No. III. p. 45.

[1684.—“The Honble. Comp. having order’d…that the Dustore upon their Investment…be brought into the Generall Books.”—Pringle, Diary, Ft. St. Geo. 1st ser. iii. 69.]

1780.—“It never can be in the power of a superintendent of Police to reform the numberless abuses which servants of every Denomination have introduced, and now support on the Broad Basis of Dustoor.”—Hicky’s Bengal Gazette, April 29.

1785.—“The Public are hereby informed that no Commission, Brokerage, or Dustoor is charged by the Bank, or permitted to be taken by any Agent or Servant employed by them.”—In Seton-Karr, i. 130.

1795.—“All servants belonging to the Company’s Shed have been strictly prohibited from demanding or receiving any fees or dastoors on any pretence whatever.”—Ibid. ii. 16.

1824.—“The profits however he made during the voyage, and by a dustoory on all the alms given or received…were so considerable that on his return some of his confidential disciples had a quarrel with him.”—Heber, ed. 1844, i. 198.

1866.—“…of all taxes small and great the heaviest is dustooree.”—Trevelyan, Dawk Bungalow, 217.

DUSTUCK, s. P. dastak, [‘a little hand, hand-clapping to attract attention, a notice’]. A pass or permit. The dustucks granted by the Company’s covenanted servants in the early half of the 18th century seems to have been a constant instrument of abuse, or bone of contention, with the native authorities in Bengal. [The modern sense of the word in N. India is a notice of the revenue demand served on a defaulter.]

1716.—“A passport or dustuck, signed by the President of Calcutta, should exempt the goods specified from being visited or stopped.”—Orme, ed. 1803, ii. 21.

1748.—“The Zemindar near Pultah having stopped several boats with English Dusticks and taken money from them, and disregarding the Phousdar’s orders to clear them.…”—In Long, 6.

[1762.—“Dusticks.” See WRITER.]

1763.—“The dignity and benefit of our Dustucks are the chief badges of honour, or at least interest, we enjoy from our Phirmaund.”—From the Chief and Council at Dacca, in Van Sittart, i. 210.

[1769.—“Dusticks.” See under HOSBOLHOOKUM.

[1866.—“It is a practice of the Revenue Courts of the sircar to issue Dustuck for the malgoozaree the very day the kist (instalment) became due.”—Confessions of an Orderly, 132.]

DWARKA, n.p. More properly Dvaraka or Dvarika quasi [Greek Text] ekatompuloV, ‘the City with many gates,’ a very sacred Hindu place of pilgrimage, on the extreme N.W. point of peninsular Guzerat; the alleged royal city of Krishna. It is in the small State called Okha, which Gen. Legrand Jacob pronounces to be “barren of aught save superstition and piracy” (Tr. Bo. Geog. Soc. vii. 161). Dvarika is, we apprehend, the [Greek Text] barakh of Ptolemy. Indeed, in an old Persian map, published in Indian Antiq. i. 370, the place appears, transcribed as Bharraky.

c. 1590.—“The Fifth Division is Jugget (see JACQUETE), which is also called Daurka. Kishen came from Mehtra, and dwelt at this place, and died here. This is considered as a very holy spot by the Brahmins.”—Ayeen, by Gladwin, ed. 1800, ii. 76; [ed. Jarrett, ii. 248].

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