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I'm behind the curve on this high tech stuff. gaha
This Week in DVD: Wall-E, Tropic Thunder, and More | /Film 2008
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In vain have I explained this to the Cingalese; they will not attempt its preparation because their fathers did not eat it; and yet these same men will walk forty miles to cut a bundle of sticks of the galla gaha tree for driving buffaloes!
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857
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Next to these come the varieties of fig-trees. particularly the sacred _Bo_ (_F. religiosa_) which is found near every temple, and the _na gaha_ (_Messua ferrea_), with thick dark leaves and a scarlet flower.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Amongst these the Mangroves [1] take the first place in respect to their mass of vegetation; then follow the Belli-patta [2] and Suriya-gaha [3], with their large hibiscus-like flowers; the Tamarisks [4]; the Acanthus [5], with its beautiful blue petals and holly-like leaves; the Water Coco-nut [6]; the Ægiceras and
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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(K [= a] çi-Kosala, the realm of Benares-Oude), his course extending from the (Ir [= a] vati) Rapti river in the north to R [= a] jagriha (_gaha, _ now
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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