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Volume 22 - April 1890

Contents

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Correspondence

  • 2. Hiouen Thsang and the Four Vedas

  • Rh. D.
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    15 March 2011, p. 204
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Correspondence

  • 3. Herodotus on the Magians

  • G. Bertin
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    15 March 2011, pp. 821-822
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  • 1. Le Théâtre Persan

  • F. J. Goldsmid
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    15 March 2011, pp. 663-664
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  • 4. Modern Name of “Ur of the Chaldees”

  • James W. Redhouse
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    15 March 2011, pp. 822-823
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  • V. Notes and News

  • J. E. Abbott
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    08 March 2017, pp. 502-505
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  • 2. Derivation of the Word “Ganga.”

  • J. F. Hewitt
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    15 March 2011, pp. 664-665
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Original Communications

  • Art. V.—Early History of Kannaḍa Literature

  • B. Lewis Rice
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    15 March 2011, pp. 245-262

  • Among the so-called Dravidian languages of Southern India none can boast of a higher antiquity in the cultivation of its literature than the Kannaḍa or Karṇâṭaka, commonly called Canarese by Europeans. And yet, while the sister languages Tamil and Telugu have their votaries, Kannaḍa has received attention from but few, if any, among Oriental scholars. This neglect is no doubt partly due to its being principally spoken in Native States, whence it has come less into contact with Europeans, while the other languages form the media of official business through a large extent of British territory. An erroneous impression has, besides, been fostered by some writers, whose acquaintance with South Indian languages was probably chiefly confined to Tamil or Telugu, that these were in some way superior either in structure or in the contents of their literature to Kannaḍa, a statement for which there is not the least foundation, and originating in the want of accurate information regarding the latter.

  • Art. VI.—Was the Book of Wisdom written in Hebrew?

  • D. S. Margoliouth
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    15 March 2011, pp. 263-297

  • That the Proverbs of Ben-Sira were written in some kind of Hebrew has never been seriously questioned, and the number of sources in which clues to the original have been preserved would be sufficient to silence any doubts that might be raised. It would be natural to suppose that the Book of Wisdom, which bears so close a relation to those Proverbs, which enlarges on so much that Ben-Sira suggests, and endeavours to be deep where he is shallow, appealed to the same public, and was composed in the same language. But although this theory would receive a primâ facie plausibility from the Hebraisms with which the pseudo-Solomon's style abounds, his affectation of Greek eloquence, noticed by very early critics, his allusions to Greek customs, and his reminiscences of Greek authors, have seemed to put it out of court; and the best editors of this century only mention this theory to reject it. In the last century, however, it was supported by some eminent names; and early in this found an advocate in Bretschneider, the author of three dissertations on the Book of Wisdom, who had an adherent in Engelbreth.

Notes of the Quarter

Original Communications

  • Art. VII.—The Trisula Symbol

  • William Simpson
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    15 March 2011, pp. 299-317

  • It is only lately that the Trisula, or Trident, has attracted attention as a symbol. It so chances that for many years back I have collected matter connected with this subject, and have often wished to put it in form for publication, but want of time has always stood in the way of realizing this desire. Lately contributions dealing with the Trisula have appeared in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society from Mr. Sewell and Mr. Pincott, and I feel urged to add some additional material to what they have given. I shall not be able to reproduce everything that I have gathered up, but my endeavour will be to give what seems to be important, or may throw light on the subject. As to a theory of origin, I have one: it has long been formed in my mind, and up to the present I see no reason to reject it; or it might be expressed, that no better theory has as yet, so far as I know, been proposed.

Notes of the Quarter

  • III. Obituary Notices

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    15 March 2011, pp. 827-830
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