"“Among other things, we are told that he insisted upon his disciples eating the common grass-hopper (phaDinga), which they detested, because the locust (tiDDi) was used as food in Arabia.”"
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About Dudu Miyan. Murray Titus, Indian Islam, Oxford, 1930, p. 180.
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