Adam, M. Lucien, excellent grammar
by, of the Manchu language, 346
Agra, journey to, after the surrender
of Hughli, occupied eleven months,

96

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,

157

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, |

201

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,

63

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,

65.

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-

312

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Dagasara, probably the modern Jakasar,

145

Daranabila, in Baluchi, would mean the

small hill of Dara, 133
Darius would seem to have attempted
to check the spread of Scythism,

23

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,

24-25

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,

155

drawings by, comprise

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,

64

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,

50

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,

49

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,

value of position

355

360

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