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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1893

1894

g. the Gupta or Lantsha.) Possibly this may be put down to the fact that Sambhota may have modified the shapes of the letters he adopted or it may be due to subsequent alterations the table not showing the exact shape the letters received at the hands of Sambhota but such as they assumed in the course of time. [...] Now there is an unmistakable similarity of the letters shown in the table of the Asiatic Researches ou the one hand with the Babel's " Warta " characters and.on the other with the Central Asian characters in the Weber Manuscripts. [...] Towards the end of the 7th century and early in the 8th Central Asia was overran by the Muhammadan armies of the Rbalifat and this put an end to the Sanskrit culture of those regions. [...] The first mention of Abhijit occurs in the Taittiriya BrAhmakm and it formed already a part of the nakshatra series in the time of the grammarian PAnini.6 The latter's date is probably at the end of the 3rd century B. C. The earliest mention of the 28 nakshtras in China (introduced by the Buddhists) is in the middle of 3rd century B. C. Accordingly we have roughly as the termini a quo and ad [...] Thus the Nakshatra-kalpa too gives lists not only of the shape the divinity the number of stars and the duration of muhArtas of every one of the 28 nakshatras but also of their foufold distribution into Eastern Southern Western and Northern of their giitra (or race of gishi) and of the kind of food that may be taken under them.
history
Pages
110
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v Honorary Philological Scretary view
The Weber Mss.—Author Collection of Ancient Manuscripts from Central Asia.—by Dr. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle
1-40 Honorary Philological Scretary view
On the Early Study of Indian Vernaculars in Europe.—by G. A. Grierson Esq F. C. S
41-52 Honorary Philological Scretary view
Note on the history of the East India Company Coinage from 1753-1835.—by Edgar Thurston
52-84 Honorary Philological Scretary view
Græco-Roman Influence on the Civilization of Ancient India. Supplementary note.—by Vincent Arthur Smith M. R. A. S. Indian Civil Service
84-87 Honorary Philological Scretary view
Uriyá Inscriptions of the 15th and 16th Centuries.—by Bábú Mon Mohan Chakravarti M. A. B. L. Subordinate Executive Service of Bengal
88-103 Honorary Philological Scretary view

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