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  • The Arab. has "Jauhar-ji," a Turkish form for Jauhari; and here "jauhar" apparently means a pearl, the stone once peculiar to royalty in Persia, but the kind of gem is left undetermined.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Rajput women had deeply internalised these values and heroically committed jauhar, so that they do not fall into the hands of the conqueror and face dishonour.

    The Jodhaa Akbar controversy distorts the glorious legacy of Rajput-Mughal syncretic culture, 2008

  • “Mujauhar”: the watery or wavy mark upon Eastern blades is called the “jauhar,” lit. = jewel.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Mahmud I, called Begarha (Two Forts) because of his conquest of Girnar (with Kathiawar, 1469–70) and Champanir (near Baroda, 1483–84), when 700 Hindu Rajputs preferred ritual death (jauhar) to Islam.

    1398-99 2001

  • "Mujauhar": the watery or wavy mark upon Eastern blades is called the "jauhar," lit. = jewel.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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    Adam Baer: Doctors: Over-Testing and Over-Writing 2008

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    Adam Baer: Doctors: Over-Testing and Over-Writing 2008

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