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The Asiatic Journal for January 1831 (New Series)

1831

During his stay in the camp the transactions in the adjoining proliinces became' of course the topic of convessation end amongst them Madbajec Soindia's invasion of the territory of the rana of Gohud. [...] The loss of the fort by stratgem or treachery seems confirthed by a Bunsiplee of a Kliundwa potail which may be considered of some authenticity as it contains the genealogy of the family to the The tcmples of this character are generally railed Sublia Muntlits ; the spare in them the cupolas end pore rs. [...] To the accuracy of an investigator of this department of the history of man the lacunae in the historic page are too frequently an impediment; for hqwever we may possess the joint guidance of mythology and language the links are in too many places broVen which would have enabled us more satisfactorily to have followed the vast chain of events which occasioned the dispersion of nomadic tribes [...]. Thus many parts of the account of the cosmogony from the body of Ymer the Nornir the Valkyriar the Wrisks f -Leshies and Berstues Glebog Ben Veneco Odin Vile and Ve the bridge. Bifrost Asgard Gladsheim and Valhalla the giants and dwarfs the cow Audumbla lhe ash Yggdrasil the ages of mankind the Urdar-fount and the well of Almer the snake-king Nidhus the different worlds [...] - But in the classical pages the proofs of an Asiatic origin are still more forcible and the separate as well as collective examples are still more conclusive: the verbal forms the style of language and the allusions in the Iliad and the Odyssey afford to the Orientalist convictions Anot to be shaken by any minor difficulties or objections that in the age of Hornet; traces of the connexion
history
Pages
154
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120104
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi unknown view
Memoir of the Count De Boigne
1-8 unknown view
Accounts of Woon
9-17 T.D. Stuarrt view
Fashions in Dress
18-20 unknown view
On Mythological Characters &c. With Preliminalary Oibservations on Analogy of D1Ction
20-30 Wait view
Rambling Notices
31-44 unknown view
Hindu Astrology
44-44 unknown view
Suttees and Pilgrim Tax
45-48 unknown view
Dissection of a Mummy
49-52 unknown view
Remarks on the Penal Code of China
53-58 unknown view
On the Volcanic Phenomena of China and Japan
59-62 M. Klaproth view
Free Labour in the Mauritius
63-66 unknown view
Projected Scheme of a Voyage Round the World
67-72 unknown view
Miscellanies Original and Select
73-84 unknown view
Varieties
84-85 unknown view
Critical Notes
85-87 unknown view
Literary Intelligence
87-87 unknown view
Asiatic Intelligence
1-31 unknown view
Register
32-39 unknown view
Debate at the East-India House
40-47 unknown view
Home Intelligence
48-50 unknown view
Prices of European Goods in the East
51-56 unknown view

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