596 Sino-Iranica 



18. pdVi is the common word for "book" all over North India. 

 The Ksh. form is piifi. 



21. sendilra- is the regular Prakrit form of Skr. sindura-. 



28. I do not see how ba-dan can represent patdka. The change 

 of initial p to b is, I think, impossible in any Prakrit or modern 

 Indian language. Of course, the change might have occurred in 

 Tibetan. 1 



29. sdccha, with a long a, is impossible in Prakrit. Compare Hindo- 

 stani sacd ("a mould"). 



30. In true Apabhramca, medial k often becomes g (Hemacandra, 

 iv, 396). This accounts for the g in mu-tig. But the Ap. form would 

 be *mu(o)ttiga-, not mukt- or mut-. 



45. Is not Tibetan k'a-ra = HindostanI khdf, "coarse sugar?" I 

 should be inclined to derive the Tibetan word la-ka-ra from the Persian 

 word Sakar, not from Skr. Sarkard. If the Tibetan word came from 

 India, it would be sa-ka-ra. In regular Prakrit, and in all the modern 

 Indo-Aryan vernaculars except Bengali, Sanskrit He) becomes s. The 

 Persian word is in regular use in Kashmiri $akar, and could thus have 

 got into Tibet. 



68. The regular Prakrit form is viddutna-, which is quite common. 

 See, e.g., the index to the Setubandha. I have never met any form such 

 as *viruma-, or the like. 



113. Although ddr-cinl is the dictionary word, ddl-cini is universal 

 all over North India. 



118. I have not come across cob-clnl in Kashmiri, but in that 

 language other compounds with cob are common, to indicate the roots of 

 various plants. This leads me to think that the word probably got into 

 Tibetan through Kashmir. 



122. The word tsddar, a shawl, is pure Kashmiri. It came into that 

 language from India. 



143. Araq is, of course, common all over North India. It is even 

 used by Hindus, and appears in Hindi. In Kashmiri, arak means "sweat." 

 It is the same word. 



143-156. I think it, is certain that all these Arabic words came via 

 India. They are all in common use in North India and Kashmir. The 

 only exception is No. 148. I do not remember coming across this cor- 

 ruption of masjid anywhere in India proper. But, curiously enough, 



1 It should be borne in mind that the derivation of ba-dan from patdka is proposed 

 by the Tibetan grammarians; whether this is objectively correct, is another ques- 

 tion. At any rate, ba-dan is not a Tibetan word, and the object which it denotes 

 came from India with Buddhism. — [B.L.] 



