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Asiatick Researches or Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal for inquiring into the History and Antiquities of Arts Sciences and Literature of Asia

1806

allowed to avow in the purfuit or fuppon of the objea s of his perfonal credit to accept the firft ifation in a dpartment in which the fuperior talents of my immediate followers in it would Thine with a luftre from which mine muff Puffer much in the comparifon ; and to Rand in fo confpicuous a point of view the only ineffeaive member of a body which is yet in its infancy and copoled of [...] been efleemed the nurfe of fciences the inventrefs of delightful and ufeful arts the fcene of glorious aaions fertile in the produebons of human genius abounding in natural wonders and infinitely dverfified in the forms of religion and government in the laws manners culloms and languages as well as in the features and complexions of men. [...] Mons have agreed to place the firli in their fymbolical fyffems : by opening them wider with the corners of them a little drawn back we give birth to the fecond of the Roman vowels; and by a large aperture with a farther inflexion of the lips and a higher elevatIon of the tongue Ne utter the third of them. [...] The very broad found of the Arabian leter which they call extended and which the Perfians extend yet more as in the word akin may aptly enough be repreiented by the profodtal fign fince it is conftantty long whereas the marklumzhah as conitantly jhortenthe letter and gives it the found of the point above or below it as in the words ;kill and llhini. [...] 6. It was a night when the eylathes of the moon were tinged with the black powder (alcohol) of the giuotn ; 7. A niirlil in which thou mightell have teen the clouds like camels eagerly gazing on the Liars; 8. While the eves of heaven wt.pt on the bright bodela of the ; 9. The li4htning diiplayecl his {Dining teeth with wonder at this change In rimz went ; i a. And the thunder almoft bu
history
Pages
536
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120107
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Introduction
i-xvii unknown view
I. A Dessertation on the Orthography of Asiatick Words in Roman Letters
1-56 President view
II. Astronomical Observations in Fort William and between Madras and Calcutta
57-xii Thomas Pearse view
III. A Royal Grant of Land Engraved on a Copper-Plate Bearing Date Twenty-Three Years Before Christ; and Discovered Among the Ruins at Mongueer
123-i Charles Wilkins view
IV. An Inscription on a Pillar Near Buddal
131-144 Charles Wilkins view
V. Some Account of the Sculptures and Ruins at Mavalipuram
145-170 William Chambers view
VI. Hints Relative to Friction in Mechanics
171-198 Reuben Burrow view
VII. Copy of an Account Given by Mr. Turner of his Interview with Teeshoo Lama at the Monaftery of Terpaling Enclosed in Mr. Turner’s Letter to the Honourable the Governor General Dated Patna 2nd March 1784
199-206 unknown view
VIII. An Account of a Journey to Tibet
207-220 John Macpherson view
IX. On the Gods of Greece Italy and India Written in 1784
221-275 unknown view
X. A Description of a Cave Near Gya
276-283 John Harington view
XI. Translation of a Sanskrit Inscription Copied from a Stone at Booddha Gaya
284-287 Wilmot view
XII. Observation on the Sacha and there College
288-294 unknown view
XIII. An Extract of a Letter
295-299 Francis Fowke view
XIV. A Description of the Máhwah Tree
300-308 Charles Hamilton view
XV. Of the Method of Distilling as Practised by the Natives at Chatra in Ramgur and in the other Provinces Perhaps with but Little Vairation
309-319 Archibald Keir view
XVI. A Method of Calculating the Moon’s Parallaxes in Latitude and Longitude
320-331 Reuben Burrow view
XVI. The Process of Making Attar or Essential Oil of Roses
332-339 Polier view
XVIII. On the Literature of the Hindus from the Sanscrit Communicated
340-356 Goverdhan Caul view
XIX. An Indian Grant of Land in Y.C. 1018 Literally Translated from the Sanscrit
357-375 Ramalochan Pandit view
XX. On the Pangolin of Bahar
376-ii Matthew Leslie view
XXI. Inscriptions of the Staff of Firuz Shah Translated from the Sanscrit
379-382 Radhacanta Sarman view
XXII. A Conversation with Abram an abyssinian Concerning the City of Gwender and the Sources of the Nile
383-388 President view
XXIII. On the Trial by Ordeal Among the Hindus
389-404 Ali Khan view
XXIV. The Second Anniversary Discourse Delivered 24th February 1785
405-414 President view
XXV. The Third Anniversary Discourse Delivered 2 February 1786
415-431 President view
XXVI. Corrections of the Lunar Method of Finding the Longitude
432-440 Reuben Burrow view
Appendix to the First Volume of Asiatick Researches
441-484 unknown view

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