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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1858

1859

Beyond this they have a tradition of the deluge and then an account of the creation and fall of man coinciding so minutely with the statements of the Bible — even preserving the names of Adaus and Eve —that they must have been derived from the written record since the days of Moses. [...] Tha-nai pleased not the eye of the dragon The persons of E-u and Tha-nai pleased not the mind of the drgon The dragon looked on thew —the dragon beguiled the woman and Tha-nai. [...] A potical fragment before me that has never been published says: The palm-leaf book that is written in circles the book of palm-leaf that in circles is written The elders drew out the lines in long coils ; They became great winding paths ; The letters of the palm-leaf books Teach ancient wonders ; The pages of the palm-leaf books Show wonders of antiquity. [...] The more they lived in hostility the more degraded they became ; the more degraded they became the shorter the period of life ; the shorter the period of life the more they did evil ; the more they did evil the mare severe were the judgments of God afflicting them the more with sickness and death. [...] In the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Begal and in the Journal of the Indian Archipelago Hodgson Logan and others have published the same words in all the known laguages from Australia to Siberia and from the Yellow Sea to the Black.
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Pages
124
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Notes of the Karen Language.—By Francis Mason. The Karens
129-168 The Secretaries view
Coin Collections Lost During the Rebellion.—By George H. Freeling Esq. B.C.S.
169-169 The Secretaries view
A Register of the Temperature of the Surface of the Ocean from the Hooghly to the Thames.—By A. Campbell Esq. M.D.
170-175 The Secretaries view
Description of a New Species of Himalayan Mole Talpa Macrura.—By B.H. Hodgson Esq
176-176 The Secretaries view
A Twenty-Fifth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India being the H. Company’s Steamer Pluto’s Cyclone in the Gulf of Martaban 23rd and 24th April 1854.—By Henry Piddington President of Marine Courts
177-195 The Secretaries view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for March 1858
196-200 The Secretaries view
Abstract of the Results of the Hourly Meteorological Observations Taken at the Surveyor General’s Office Calcutta in the Month of August 1857
lvii-viii The Secretaries view
Arabic and Persian
3-3 The Secretaries view
Miscellaneous
4-6 The Secretaries view

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