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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1864

1865

It is the language.of the most civilised portion of the Hindu race from the eastern boundary of Behar to the foot of the Solimini Range and from the Vindhya to the Terai. [...] Beginning with the inflection of nouns wo find that the first step in the transition of the Sanskrita into bhe ()tithe was the omission of the mark of the nominative singular—a which after a assumed the form of the aspirate viearga. [...] This was exactly what was to be expected for the most prominent feature of the changes which led to the transition of the Vedic Sanskrita into the language of the Riimyana and the MahabhArata was the softening down of harsh and difficult combinations of several consonants and of elision of asprates. [...] But in the Lend the latter condition is not necesary hence o is the usual termination in the nominative singular and it is its contraction that we meet with in the Gatlui in the form of is.- The Pali of As'oka's edicts omits the e but never takes the o or u ; but in the Pali of lititytlyana's grammar and as we find it in the Cingalese chronicles the o is preferred to simple elision so is [...] On the contrary it is certain that the aborgines receded as the tide of the Aryan conquerors flowed onward from the north-west very much in the same way as the Red Indian in North America receded from the contact of the Saxon and the Celt and they could not therefore leave behind much of their dialects to leaven the lan-. gunge of the aggressors.
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Pages
212
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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On the Origin of the Hindiví Language and its Relation to the Urdu Dialect.—by Bábu Ra'jendrala'la Mitra. Corresponding Member of the German and the American Oriental Societies
489-i The Secretaries view
The Mines of Khetree in Rajpootana.—By Col. J. C. Brooke
519-529 The Secretaries view
Note on the Hail-Storm of Thursday the 24th March.—By Henry F. Blanford A. R. S. M. P. G. S. Joint Secretary of the Asiatic Society
530-534 The Secretaries view
Observations on Keeping Salt-Water Fish-Alive for a Considerable Time.—By Lt.-Col. R. C. Tytler
534-535 The Secretaries view
Observations on a Few Species of Geckos Alive in the Possession of the Author.—by Lt.-Col. R. C. Tytler
535-548 The Secretaries view
Inscription on the Muqbura at Hailan
549-551 The Secretaries view
Peculiarities and Uses of the Pillar Towers of the British Islands by Dr. T. A. Wise
552-572 The Secretaries view
Proceedings of The Asiatic Society of Bengal for November 1864
573-612 The Secretaries view
Abstract of the Results of the Hourly Meteorological Observations Taken at the Surveyor General’s Office Calcutta
xlix-xcv The Secretaries view
Meteorological Observations taken at Gangaroowa near Kandy Ceylon in the Month of December 1803
lxi-liv The Secretaries view
Classified List of Naturalists and Others Engaged in the Collections of Objects of Interest
i-xiii The Secretaries view

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