240 Rev. Epwarp Hincks on the three Kinds of Persepolitan Writing, 
as above shewn, da would be the termination corresponding to d’has and Sev; 
for the old Persians always dropped s and w after a. Da, however, would also 
correspond to the Greek Sa in ev$a, which is in the Vedas a’ha, in the later 
Sanscrit ia, in tha. Now, it was necessary to make a distinction between adverbs 
which differed im signification, as there and thence. If awadd was to signify 
there, some other termination must be used to form a word signifying thence; 
and it appears to me that 2a is at least as likely a modification of da as tha is. 
It may also be considered as bearing on this question, and therefore I think it 
right to mention, that the genitive singular of the pronoun of the second person 
singular, ¢ém, begins with No. 18. It is what I should read zwwdm. This has 
certainly no etymological connexion with the nominative, but neither has mand 
with adam, nor amdkham with wayam, the genitives and nominatives of other 
pronouns. There is no corresponding Sanscrit form, for I cannot consider tava 
to correspond, which is the genitive in both Sanscrit and Zend; and in the 
absence of such, it does not appear to me that any inference can be fairly drawn 
as to the value of the letter. I suspend my opinion till I see what Major 
Rawlinson has to say in support of the values which he has given, after Lassen, 
to these two letters; but I certainly incline strongly to think that those assigned 
in my former paper are the true ones. 
No. 15 is not used in the Bisitun inscription. It has occurred to me, how- 
ever, that it is rendered highly probable by the Babylonian deciphering that 
its value was zya or long 7. It is only used after No. 8, ”, in a word signifying 
“king.” Now, the Babylonian word signifying “king” was certainly m7. If 
this word, or néya, with the usual termination, was adopted into the Persian lan- 
guage, it could not well be written with the ordinary letters, for they compose 
the word ni or né, “not; and the character actually used bears a very strong 
resemblance to that which represents y, and might therefore naturally be selected 
as suitable to represent the new word. 
In respect to the second or Median kind of writing, I am satisfied that the 
general principles announced in my former paper are correct ; I have to add to 
them, however, a new one, which I ascertained from the inscriptions of the third 
kind to prevail in them, and which I have since found to be also applicable to 
the Median inscriptions. It is this: if a character which expresses a syllable 
commencing with a consonant, be preceded by a character expressing the same 
