dadur

dadur

[dä′du̇r]
(meteorology)
In India, a wind blowing down the Ganges Valley from the Siwalik hills at Hardwar.
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Thus, the Nuj[u.bar]m mentions Dadur as a flourishing mountain, but omits Malaya, which is listed by Var[a.bar]hamihira, al-Biruni, and Markandeya, who describe Dadur and Malaya as "twin mountains" in the south.
The authorship and significance of the Nuj[u.bar]]m al-'ul[u.bar]m: a sixteenth-century astrological encyclopedia from Bijapur
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