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The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal March 1835

1835

It was in the halls of Janakpur however that the youthful RAMA sought a bride : it was from the battlements of Simroun that the last of the Deva dynasty defied so lung the imperial of TOOLAK SHAH But the ruins of Janakpur and of Simroun still exist in the Nipalese - low-lands: and would form a just idea of what the Hindus of Mithila achived prier to the advent of the Moslems: must bend his pilgr [...] and at a nearly equal distance from the BC:matty south of the former and west of the latter stand the remain. of Simmers in the Nipalese district of Rotahat and opposite to the Chansirun division of the Pritials xillah of Sirun. [...] The i nteresting discovery of the passage in the Buddhist sacred books from which the Siirmith inscription is taken by M. Csom.t DE KORUS removes all doubt as to the reading of the first word which I unfortunately took for the demonstrative pronoun me* whereas it is the relatire to which the in the next line refers. [...] The 6Thirleastructure of the two passages confirms me in the idea of their indepe&may z the latter being in the ordinary Anastrip measure with about tbo same &licit of license as see find that measure in the Purtinns : whereas the former dionila approximating in places to the measure of eight syllables is as remote from the rules of V ALM I K et; stoke as sire the hymns of Use Vedas g and [...] MILL's conjectural emendation of the 2nd line of the second of these stanzas has been since unexpectedly confirmed by the Siughulesel The word upasampada is technically understood of the superior order of the Bud..
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Pages
73
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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I.—Account of a Visit to the Ruins of Simroun once the capital of the Mithila Province. By B. H. Hodgson. Esq. Resident in Nipal
121-124 James Prinsep view
II.—Farther Particulars of the Sarun and Tirhut Laths and Account of Two Buddha Inscriptions Found the One at Bakhra in Tirhu the other at Sarnath near Benares. By James Prinsep Sec. As. Soc. &c.
124-128 James Prinsep view
III.—Excurtion to the Ruins and Site of an Ancient City near Bakhra 13 Cos North of Patna and Six North from Singhea. (Extracted from the Journal of Mr. J. Stephenson.)
128-138 James Prinsep view
IV.—Report on the Island of Socotra. By Lieut. J. R. Wellsted Indian Navy Assistant Surveyor
138-166 James Prinsep view
V.—Note on an Inscription on the Mandara Hill near Bhagelpur. (Forming a Postscript to Article III of the Present Number)
166-167 James Prinsep view
VI.—Extracts from a Journal Kept during a Voyage from England to Calcutta in 1831. By Lieut. T. Hutton 37th N. I.
167-173 James Prinsep view
VII.—Account of Oxygyrus; a New Genus of Pelagian Shells Allied to the Genus Atlanta of Lesueur with a Note on some other Pelagian Shells Lately Taken on Board the Ship Malcolm. By W. H. Benson Esq. Bengal Civil Service
173-176 James Prinsep view
VIII.—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
177-183 James Prinsep view
Meteorological Register
184-184 James Prinsep view

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