Bolida and Burdi

In the list occur two names, Bolida and Burdi. These refer in reality to the same

tribe, the Buledi or Bule

dhi, a name derived undoubtedly from the Boleda Valley

in Mekran. Burdi is the Sindhi form, due to the fondness of that language for
changing

‘l’ to ‘r’ and throwing the accent back to the antepenultimate; but the

Burdis of Sindh are never spoken of in Balochi by any other name than Buledhi.
Dr. Bellew gives distinct origins for the two names. He says: Bolida (mentioned
by Ptolemy) is the same as the Puladi or Faoladi of the Hazarah, and has given its
name to a district in Mekran. The original name seems to have been Bol, Bola, or

Pola (whence the Bol temple of Multan, Bolan Pass, and Plilaji

1 Shrine not far

from it) for Bala Brahman, and the form Bolida

 is the Sindhi correlative of the

Hindi Bolika, of the Bola, Pola, or BaIa.’ Dr. Bellow explains Burdi as
representing the Bhurta Solanki Rajput. So that the Buledhi tribe in one form of
its name is Bala Brahman, and in the other Bhurta Rajput.