AMRIT`SAR

AMRIT`SAR
   (136), a sacred city of the Sikhs in the Punjab, and a great centre of trade, 32 m. E. of Lahore; is second to Delhi in Northern India; manufactures cashmere shawls.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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