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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

It having been resolved to follow as nearly as possible the plan of the Royal Society at London of which the King is Patron it was agreed at the first regular meeting that the following Letter should be sent to the Governor-General and Council as the Exective Power in the Company's territories ; and their answer which is also subjoined was received in the course of the next month. [...] 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 an [...] When the first vowel as the Persians pronounce it in the word baklit is doubled or prolonged as in bakht it has the sound of the second Ndgari vowel and of the first Arabic letter that is of 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 puolated as to resemble [...] The very broad sound of the Arabian letter which they call extended and which the Persians extend yet more as in the word dscin may aptly enough be represented by the prosodial sign since it is constantly long ; whereas the mark hamzah as constantly shortens the letter and gives it the sound of the point above or below it ; as in the words &al and Islam : the changes of this letter may perpl [...] 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 ra as in RA'MA the conqueror of Sildn.
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Cover
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Frontmatter
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I.A Dissertation on the Orthography of Asiatic Words in Roman Letters
1-46 unknown view
II.Astronomical Observations
47-111 Thomas D. Pearse view
III.A Royal Grant of Land
112-118 unknown view
IV.An Inscription on a Pillar Near Buddal
119-128 Charles Wilkins view
V.Some Account of the Sculptures and Ruins at Mavalipuram
129-149 unknown view
VI.Hints Relative to Friction in Mechanics
150-171 Reuben Burrow view
VII.An Account Given By Mr. Turner of his Interview with Teeshoo Lama
172-177 unknown view
VIII.An Account of a Journey to Tibet
178-187 John Macpherson view
IX.On the Gods of Greece Italy and India. Written in 1784 and Since Revised
188-235 unknown view
X.A Description of a Cave Near Gya
236-242 unknown view
XI.Translation of a Sanscrit Inscription Copied From a Stone at Bood-Dha-Gaya
243-244 Wilmot 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 Lieutenant Hamilton view
XV.Of the Method of Distilling
262-270 unknown view
XVI.A Method of Calculating the Moon’s Parallaxes
271-279 unknown view
XVII.The Process Of Marking Attar or Essential Oil of Roses
280-285 unknown view
XVIII.On the Literature of the Hindus from the Sanscrit
286-298 Goverdhan Caul view
XIX.An Indian Grant of Land in Y.C. 1918
299-311 unknown view
XX.On the Pangolin of Bahar
312-314 Matthew Leslie view
XXI.Inscriptions on the Staff of Firuz Shah
315-317 unknown view
XXII.A Conversation with Abram an Abyssinian
318-322 unknown view
XXIII.On the Trial by Ordeal Among the Hindus
323-334 Warren Hastings view
XXIV.The Second Anniversary Discourse
335-342 unknown view
XXV.The Third Anniversary Discourse
343-355 unknown view
XXVI.Corrections of the Lunar Method of Finding the Longitude
356-360 Reuben Burrow view
Appendix
361-382 unknown view

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