Adam, M. Lucien, excellent grammar by, of the Manchu language, 346 Agra, journey to, after the surrender of Hughli, occupied eleven months,
Ahlwardt, Prof., value of his work, Ueber die Aechtheit den alter Ara- bischen Gedichte, 80
Ajanta, chief figures in the paintings at, a stout man seated cross-legged and holding a drinking-cup in right hand, 156
character of the paintings copied by Mr. Griffiths at, ibid.
principal woman in pictures at, no doubt the wife of the stout seated man, ibid.
fresco on the walls of, certainly connected with the paintings on the roof, ibid.
character of the embassy re- presented in fresco at, ibid.
fresco at, represents an Indian king on his throne receiving a depu- tation of people, obviously foreigners,
caves, relative age of, generally shown by their position, 158
portraits on roof of Cave No. 1 at, most probably those of Khosru II. and Shirin, 169
caves at, in all 26 in number, the oldest a Vihara, of very simple construction, 158
caves at, three not finished, and therefore late, 159
royal personage on fresco at, certainly a Persian, 162
inference from the Persian costume of figures in the paintings at, ibid.
paintings at, no reason to sup- pose any Buddhist represented, ibid. faces of the personages on paintings at, damaged by the Mu- hammadans, 163
variety of its dialects and pronuncia- tion, 366-368
Arabic language, conjugation of verbs much modified when spoken, 368 comparison of the forms of, as used in Egypt and Syria, 369- 375 Arabic poetry, the range of thought in, limited, 73
suffered much from the social deterioration of the Courts of Baghdad and Damascus, 79
danger to, from the too
great zeal of the Râwies or reciters, 83 rule of, that the opening verse (consisting of two halves) should have the terminal rhyme at the end of each half, 87
much more fully studied by Continental writers than by our own, 90 Arrashid, third and last son of, who
became Khalif, the first to intro- duce into his title the name of God, |
eight sons of, all named Mohammed, and only, therefore, to be distinguished by their Kunyats or Lacabs, 201
Artaxerxes Mnemon, account of his household in Plutarch, 25
Artemisia I., fights at Salamis for Xerxes, 13
Artemisia II. builds the first Mausoleum in honour of her husband Mausollus, 13
Aryan languages have all undergone nearly the same changes, 287 Asamese Grammar by Mr. Nathan Brown and dictionary by Mr. Bronson, 65
Asoka, Inscriptions in, the oldest Sanskrit writing, 291 'Asaf Khan intercedes successfully with Shah Jehan for the Prior and Clergy of Hughli, 97
Aston, W. G., "A Comparative Study of the Japanese and Korean Lan- guages," Art. XIII., 317-364 general summary of
paper by, 361-364 Australia, recognition in, of mother- right or inheritance by the female line, 49 Australians have in their language many analogies with the Tamil- speaking Dravidians, 52
Badami and Ellora, some Brahmanical caves at, nearly synchronous with
Balomus, identifiable with the modern Barambâb, 136
Baluchi Grammar in Makrani Dialect by Major Mockler, 63
in Suleimani, by Mr. Gladstone, 63 Bengali Grammar by Dr. Wenger, and Dictionary by Sir G. Haughton, 65 Bhagavanlal Indraji, value of the services of, as an archæologist, 53 Bhaja, façade of the cave at, 41 Bhandarkar, Prof., investigation by, of the Pali Inscriptions on the walls of the Nasik Caves, 43 Boomerang, recent use of, as a weapon in the Dekkan and Egypt, as well as in Australia, 51
Brahmanism, influence of, on the pre- vious Hetairism, 36
Brahui language, Notes on, by Major Leech, Prof. Lassen, and Dr. Bellew,
Brandreth, E. L., "The Gaurian com- pared with the Romance Languages, Part 1," Art. XII., 287-316 Buddhism prosperous in India till (at least) the 7th cent. A.D., subsequent to which period for about 200 years we have no history, 159-160 Bühler, Dr., judgment of, on the identification of the portrait of the Indian King at Ajanta, 165 Bussora and Kufa, Schools of Theology and Law, early established at, 81
Calcutta school of scholars always in good repute, and still well represented by existing men of learning, 70 Caldwell, Bishop, Comparative Gram- mar by, of the Dravidian Languages,
Camp, Scythic, the, did not require
the presence of too many women, 37 Caria, famous, inter alia, for three historical queens, 13
Casidas, reason why Arabic poems were so called, 87-8
Cerebral and Dental t, d, n, and r, in Gaurian, but not in Romance, 301 Chand Bardai, the earliest Gaurian writer in XIIth cent. A.D., 290 Childers, R. C. (the late), "On Sandhi in Pali," Art. V., 99-121
engaged previously to his death on a handbook of the Pali language, 99
papers by, on Pali, placed in the hands of Prof. Pischel, of Kiel, for publication, ibid. Children, peculiar language used for, in Arabic-speaking countries, 375--6 China, the formation of written charac- ters in, commenced about 5000 years ago, 238
three principles of formation provided about 1500 characters, 239 street literature of, very abun-
dant, 251 Chinese language has no grammar, because there is no alphabet, but only pictures or ideograms, 239 ancient style of, peculiarities, etc., with quotations and examples, 252-258
ancient style of, illustrated by a short ode from the Shih, ibid.
in studying, it is well to consider all adjuncts to be adverbial, 265
Julien, as to the importance of their emplacement in a sentence, 267 Chinese Characters, native division of, into the Shih and the Hsu-the full or substantial and the empty, 259 Chinese Literature, commences with the Han Dynasty, B.C. 202, 249 · brief sketch of the chief features of ancient, classical and literary, 248-250 Chinese literary style, great varieties of, 263
Chinese tones, very difficult to say what these are, 261 Chinese writing, the masterpieces of, as pleasing as those of Plato, Cicero, Milton, Macaulay or Johnson, 263 Christians, many in the service of the Moghul Emperor, when Mandelslo travelled through India in 1638, 98
Chû Hsî, the Chinese Cicero, his great skill in the handling of the unin- flexional characters, 250 Clark, Rev. Mr., "A Specimen of the Zoungee (or Zurngee) Dialect of a Tribe of Nagas, bordering on the Valley of Assam, between the Dikho and Desoi Rivers, embracing over forty villages," Art. XI., 278. Coins, list of, in letter addressed to the editor of the Indian Antiquary, 53. Colebrooke, Sir T. Edwd., Bart., M.P., V.P., "On the Proper Names of Mohammadans," Art. IX., 171-237 Comparison of languages by Mr. Brandreth, mainly between Sindhi and Hindi on one side, and Latin and French on the other, 288 Conception, impersonality of, common to the Japanese and Korean races as distinguished from the Aryan and Semitic, 333
Conjunct consonants, notice of, 306-
Dagasara, probably the modern Jakasar,
Daranabila, in Baluchi, would mean the
small hill of Dara, 133 Darius would seem to have attempted to check the spread of Scythism,
marries Atossa, the daughter
of Cyrus, 24 Derenobosa, perhaps the west point of the Gwadar headland, 137 Dennis, Mr., in his work on Etruria,
and others, speak of the Lycian custom of reliance on maternity, 18 Diez, M., list given by, of the Latin words lost in the Romance, 294 Drama, Chinese, cultivated during the Yuan or Mongol Dynasty, 13 and 14 cent. A.D., 250
not admitted to be a legitimate portion of the national literature, 250-1
Edkins, Dr., thinks Chinese researches may throw light on the origin of words, 244. Epiphanius, statement by, of the univer-
sal early prevalence of "Scythism," 2 Epitaphs of the Catholics still to be read in the mortuary chapel called the Padre Santo at Dehli, 97. Errors, the chief, in Arabic poetry, capable of detection by modern critics, 90
Essays, important, by Von Hammer-
Purgstall and M. Garcin de Tassy, in 1852 and 1854, respectively, the former being the more complete, 174 Esther, story of, as given in the Bible,
Gaurian languages, table of the princi- pal changes in, 305
and Romance, alike, have become analytical, 289 Griffiths, Mr., appointed, with others, to copy the paintings in the caves of Ajanta, in the winter of 1872,
in all 186 pictures, 155
exhibited in 1874 in the Upper Galleries of the Albert Hall, 155
Gwâdar, position of the town of, 136–7
Hafiz, Jami, Firdusi, etc., additional names assumed by, 231-5 Hammâd, a notorious forger of early Arabic poems-and gifted with a wonderful memory, 84
Haswell, Mr., grammar by, of the Mon-Anam or Pegu language, 69 Hetairism (as understood by the Greeks), always a leading institution in India, 35-6
Hindi language, grammar of, by Kellogg, and dictionary by Bates,
Hindi, high or literary, based on Braj, the popular dialect of the Doab, 288 Hindustani or Urdu, dictionaries by Fallon and Bryce, 65
grammars by Platt, Dowson, Holroyd, and Eastwick, 63 Hodgson, B. H., valuable services of, for the Nepal group of Tibeto- Burman languages, 66-7 Hughli, Prior of, his speech to Shah Jehán, 96
liberated, after nine years' im- prisonment, at the request of Man- rique, 97
Huxley, Prof., Map by, of the dis- tribution of the principal modifica- tions of mankind, 2
on the race-connexions of the Australians and Egyptians,
notice by, of the marked characteristics of Australians as seen in the Hill Tribes of the Dekkan, 50
Iambulus, testimony of, to Cingalese customs, of little value, 47 Ibn Batuta, account of the female sovereigns of the Maldive Islands,
Idolatry of Pre-Islamic times care- fully eliminated from the early poetry by its collectors, 85
Imaums, the Twelve, have their Kunyats and Lacabs duly recorded, 202 Imrulkays, poems of, chiefly preserved by the writings of Hammâd, 84 Indian languages not adequately re- presented in the English Universities, 71
Islam, many passages in the annals of, illustrated in Arabic verse, 78 Ism u Nisbat, in Arabic the name of relation, 219-225
as a class, comprises names derived from connexion of place or family, trade, religion, or sect, thus resembling the cognomen of the Romans, 219
Japanese and Korean languages, both large borrowers from the Chinese,
as a means of fixing the grammatical value of words, 360-361 Japanese, the sound of r in, sometimes like English, sometimes the cerebral d of Sanskrit, 319
Japanese language, phonetic changes in, more simple than in Korean, 342 Job, the Book of, the nearest approach in English to Arabic poetry, 74
Kalama, correctly identified by Dr. Vincent with Kalamat, 135-6 Kanara language, grammars by Mr. Hodgson and Mr. Kittel, 66 Kanate, identified by Dr. Vincent and
others with the present Koh Kalat, but more probably Karatee, 144 Kandriakes river, the present Bâho, 154 Kaneatis, probably in the neighbour- hood of the Gabrêg river, 149 K'ang-hsi Dictionary, method whereby most of the characters in, were formed, 239
Keene, H. G., "Note on Manrique's Mission and the Catholics in the Time of Shah Jahan," Art. IV., 93-98
Khalaf ibn Ahmed, celebrated as a reciter of early Arabic poetry, 85 Khalifahs, early, sentences engraved on the seals of, 126–128
Khansa, Al, who lived in the time of Mahomet, the most famous of the Arab poetesses, 92
Khasi language, excellent grammar of, by Mr. Pryse, 68
Khosru, dethroned A.D. 628, 166 Khosru II. and Shirin, the only king and queen who could be commemo- rated on paintings at Ajanta, 161 Kolarian family of languages, much done for, by Messrs. Phillips, Whit- ley, etc., 66
Kolhapur, leaden coins found at, show a preference of metronymics to patro- nymics, 1
Kôphas, port of, now probably to be recognized at Pistikân, 134
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