It has been already intimated that, as the work proceeded, its scope expanded somewhat, and its authors found it expedient to introduce and trace many words of Asiatic origin which have disappeared from colloquial use, or perhaps never entered it, but which occur in old writers on the East. We also judged that it would add to the interest of the work, were we to investigate and make out the pedigree of a variety of geographical names which are or have been in familiar use in books on the Indies; take as examples _Bombay_, _Madras_, _Guardafui_, _Malabar_, _Moluccas_, _Zanzibar_, _Pegu_, _Sumatra_, _Quilon_, _Seychelles_, _Ceylon_, _Java_, _Ava_, _Japan_, _Doab_, _Punjab_, &c., illustrating these, like every other class of word, by quotations given in chronological series. Other divagations still from the original project will probably present themselves to those who turn over the pages of the work, in which we have been tempted to introduce sundry subjects which may seem hardly to come within the scope of such a glossary. The words with which we have to do, taking the most extensive view of the field, are in fact organic remains deposited under the various currents of external influence that have washed the shores of India during twenty centuries and more. Rejecting that derivation of _elephant_[8] which would connect it with the Ophir trade of Solomon, we find no existing Western term traceable to that episode of communication; but the Greek and Roman commerce of the later centuries has left its fossils on both sides, testifying to the intercourse that once subsisted. _Agallochum_, _carbasus_, _camphor_, _sandal_, _musk_, _nard_, _pepper_ (πέπερι, from Skt. _pippali_, 'long pepper'), _ginger_ (ζιγγίβερις, see under _Ginger_), _lac_, _costus_, _opal_, _malabathrum_ or _folium indicum_, _beryl_, _sugar_ (σάκχαρ, from Skt. _sarkara_, Prak. _sakkara_), _rice_ (ὄρυζα, but see s.v.), were products or names, introduced from India to the Greek and Roman world, to which may be added a few terms of a different character, such as Βραχμᾶνες, Σάρμανες (_śramaṇas_, or Buddhist ascetics), ζύλα σαγαλίνα καὶ σασαμίνα (logs of teak and shīsham), the σάγγαρα (rafts) of the Periplus (see _Jangar_ in GLOSS.); whilst _dīnāra_, _dramma_, perhaps _kastīra_ ('tin,' κασσίτερος), _kastūrī_ ('musk,' καστόριον, properly a different, though analogous animal product), and a very few more, have remained in Indian literature as testimony to the same intercourse.[9]