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18 THE BALOCH RACE
that language for changing I to r and throwing the
accent back to the antepenultimate ; but the Burdls of
Sindh are never spoken of in BalochI by any other name
than Bulerf/ii. Dr. Bellew gives distinct origins for the two
names. He says :
' Bolida (mentioned by Ptolemy) is the
same as the Puladi or Faoladi of the Hazarah, and has
given its name to a district in Mekran. The original name
seems to have been Bol, Bola, or Pola (whence the Bol
temple of Multan, Bolan Pass, and Piilaji 1 Shrine not far
from it) for Bala Brahman, and the form Bolida 2 is the
SindhI correlative of the Hindi Bolika, of the Bola, Pola,
or Bala.' Dr. Bellew explains Burdi as representing the
Bhurta Solanki Kajput. So that the Buledhi tribe in
one form of its name is Bala Brahman, and in the other
Bhurta Bajput.
Another example is the name Nutkani, as to which
Dr. Bellew observes :
* Natka or Natkani is for Nat Indian
tribe of gypsies, conjurers, rope-dancers, etc' This is a
most baseless conjecture. The name is not Natka or Nat-
kani, but Nutkani, as pronounced by outsiders, and Noe?/m-
kani in Balochi. Anl is the genitive plural termination
used to form patronymics. Nod/mk is a common proper
name of Baloches, a diminutive of Nod/i, ' a cloud,' a
word which enters into other proper names, as Nodfto,
Nod/ibandagh. NocZ/iakani or Nutkani simply means ' the
descendants of Norf/iak.'
Mazarl means the son of Mazar, the ' tiger,' a true
Baloch form. Dr. Bellew identifies the tribe with the
Mysarl, 'Indian Desert Tribe.' I have not been able to
obtain any information as to the Mysarl, but the name,
if correctly given, looks like a corruption of Maheswari (like
Mysore, from Mahes'war). Dr. Bellew also derives the
Pathan tribe of the Sulaimans, known as Zmari, from a
Hindu tribe Maisari, perhaps the same. He does not note
1 The correct form of this name is Phuleji .3»«nsTl .
2 It may be noted that da denotes the genitive in Panjabi, but is
not a SindhI termination.