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The Popular Edition. Asiatic Researches; or Transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal For Enquiring into the History and Antiquities The Arts Sciences and Literature of Asia

1884

ix the very interesting country of Tibet and the vast regions of Tatary from which as from the Trojan horse of the poets have issued so many consummate warriors whose domain has extended at least from the banks of the Ilissus to the mouths of the Ganges : on your left are the beautiful and celebrated provinces of Iran or Persia the unmeasured and perhaps unmeasurable deserts of Arabia a [...] When the first vowel as the Persians pronounce it in the word bakht is doubled or prolonged as ip brikht it has the sound of the second Ndgari vowel and of the first Arabic letter that is oi our long vowel in cast ; but the Arabs deride the Persians for their broad pronunciation of this letter which in Iran has always the sound of our vowel in call and is often so prolated as to resemble [...] The two liquids na and ma one of which is a lingual and the other a labial are kept apart in order to preserve the analogy of the system ; and the other two are introduced between the two semi-vowels : the first of these is rai As in RA'MA the conqueror of The second is la in Laitea 'another name of that islatid both in Tibut anal in India. [...] t. The man who had inebriated himself with mirk from the nipple of Anguish who had been nourished in the lap of Affliction 2. MEJNU'N mad with the bright hue and fair face of J AILf himself a dark mole on the cheek of the desert 3. Having found the way to the mansion of love became fixed like the threshold on the door of love's palace. [...] The plate with the large hole was tie laid above the turned wood its centre coinciding with the common centre : the wooden arm of the index had the end nearest the centre cut away above and below equal to the thickness of the plates of brass it was there fixed to the octant in the same manner as before it was cut off from the centre and the brass plates were drilled and rivetted to:t6 When th
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Pages
396
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120107
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Frontmatter
i-xiv unknown view
I a Dissertation
1-46 unknown view
II Astronomical Observations
47-111 Thomas Pearse view
III A Royal Grant of Land
112-118 Deb Deb view
IV An Inscription on a Pillar Near Buddal
119-128 Charls Wilkins view
V Some Account of the Sculptures and Ruins at Mavalipuram
129-149 William Chambers view
VI Hints Relative to Friction in Mechanics
150-171 Reuben Burrow view
VII Interview with Teeshoo Lama
172-177 Turner’s view
VIII An Account of a Journey to Tibet
178-187 John Macpherson view
IX On the Gods of Greece Italy and India
188-235 The President view
X A Description of a Cave near Gya
236-242 John Harington view
XI Translation of a Sanscrit Inscription
243-244 Charls Wilkins view
XII Secretary to the Asiatic Society
245-249 unknown view
XIII An Extract of a Letter from Francis Fowke Esq
250-254 unknown view
XIV A Description of the Mahwah Tree
255-261 Charles Hamilton view
XV Of the Method of Distilling
262-270 Archibald Keir view
XVI A Method of Calculating the Moon’s Parallaxes
271-279 Reuben Burrow view
XVII The Process of Making Attar or Essential Oil of Roses
280-285 Polier view
XVIII On the Literature of the Hindus from the Sanscrit
286-298 unknown view
XIX An Indian Grant of Land in Y.C. 1018
299-311 Ramalochan Pandit view
XX On the Pangolin of Bahar
312-314 Matthew Leslie view
XXI Inscriptions on the Staff of Firuz Shah
315-317 Radhacanta Sarman view
XXII A Conversation with Abram an Abyssinian
318-322 The President view
XXIII On the Trial by Ordeal among the Hindus
323-334 Ibrahim Khan view
XXIV The Second Anniversary Discourse
335-342 The President view
XXV The third Anniversary Discourse
343-355 The President view
XXVI Corrections of the Lunar Method of Finding the Longitude
356-358 Reuben Burrow view
Members of the Asiatic Society
359-360 unknown view
Appendix
361-382 unknown view

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