The rest of the entry and the whole of (2) and (3) belong more or less to the original materials and (4) was added by the Pandit. [...] The spelling of Käshmiri words written in the Persian character has the advantage of being fairly constant but the alphabet is quite unsuited for illustrating the complicated vowel sounds of the language. [...] After much consideration and many experiments I therefore decided as the most practical course to make the romanized transliteration the basis of the alphabetical order and to arrange the words in the approximate order of the English consonants without any regard to the vowels. [...] L. Barnett of the British Museum I am under heavy obligations for the unvarying friendship with which they helped me in the correction of proofs and in the elucidation of obscurities in the Sanskrit of the Pandits' explanations. [...] GRAMMATICAL NOMENCLATURE As Kashmiri grammars differ in the nomenclature of the various forms of the parts of speech I give below a series of tables of the declension and conjugation of the language showing the names adopted in the following pages for each form.
- Pages
- 315
- Published in
- India
- SARF Document ID
- sarf.120141