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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1864

1865

Coexistent with the Pali alphabet which occupied the central division of India for at least 23 0 years' B. C. were the Bactrian alphabet of the North-Western and the Dravidian languages (aparently without any written characters) of the southern division of the Peninsula the limits of the former extending almost to the confines of Persia and those of the latter from. [...] Now the difference between the German and the Roman characters is comparatively trifling and as the powers of the letters are precisely the same for all practical purposes the one alphabet332 Appliration of the Roman Alphabet. [...] Ascending the Ganges from Blit'igalpur the first object of interest which arrests the attention of the traveller is a singular mass of granite towering abruptly to the height of about a hundred feet from the bed of the river. [...] 4 the position of a water-course formed of scooped flags of granite which runs under the floor of the ball and through one of the partition walls of the chambers to a drain beyond the boundary wall of the quadrangle and which was evidently intended to carry off its draiage I am induced to believe that it stood about 3 feet lower than the ball. [...] They disclose however some curious facts : thus omitting the top-knot formed of a collection of hair on the crown of the head we find that the total length of the figure (7 feet) is to the head (12I„- inches )—as 1 to 6 and or in the language of artists 6 heads 3 parts 9 minutes instead of the usual standard of 1 to 8 and also considerably under that of the antiqu'e statues.
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Pages
199
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Frontmatter
i-i The Secretaries view
On the application of the Characters of the Roman Alphabet to Oriental Languages.—by Capt. W. Nassau Lees
345-359 The Secretaries view
On the Buddhist Remains of Sultánganj.—by Bábu Rájendralála Mitra
360-i The Secretaries view
Notes on the Didunculus Strigirostris or Tooth-Billed Pigeon of the Navigator Islands—the nearest living Ally to the extinct Dodo
373-i The Secretaries view
Memorandum on the Elephant Statues in the Delhi Palace.—by Col. J. Abbott
375-377 The Secretaries view
Observations on the Geological features &c. of the Country in the neighbourhood of Bunnoo and the Sanatorium of Shaikh Boodeen.—by C. P. Costello Esq. Asst. Surgeon 6th Punjab Infantry
378-380 The Secretaries view
Extract from Report of the Operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India during the year 1862-63.—by Major J. T. Walker R. E. Superintendent G. T. Survey
381-402 The Secretaries view
On the Antiquities of Guzerat.—by Captain H. Mackenzie
402-406 The Secretaries view
Memorandum on the Question of British Trade with Western China viá Burmah.—by Dr. C. Williams
407-433 The Secretaries view
Table of the Coins of former Governments more or less current in the Bazara of the Goojral District in 1859
434-iv The Secretaries view
Literary Intelligence
441-441 The Secretaries view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for July 1864
442-487 The Secretaries view
Abstract of the Resulte of the Hourly Meteorological Observations taken at the Surveyor General’s Office Calcutta in the month of April 1864
xxv-xlviii The Secretaries view
Meteorological Observations taken at Gangaroowa near Kandy Ceylon in the month of September 1863
xvii-xl The Secretaries view

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