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No. 292.] JANUARY 1, 1817. [6 of Vol. 42. 



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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



To the Editor of the MontJdy Magazine, lopenii lan^iiap;e, and compiled alpha- 



' SIR, botically, was waiifiiif^. Tor, notwitli- 



THE laudable desire of cxtcndiiioj sfiniilii)^- the ^vvnt reputation in India 



llie bounds of kiiowledo;e and a;;- of (he treasure of Aniara Sinlia, (Etmara 



•grandizing the domains of literature, i:i Coclia,) first piihiislied in part liy Fatlicr 



fine, views less brilliant, but, in appear- Paiilin de St. Bartholomew,* and after- 



ance, more solid, the extension of com- Avards entirely with an English Irans^ 



merce, have of late years more paiticu- lation, by the celebrated orientalist 



liirly directed the attention of learned H. T. Colobrooke, es(i.,t it is far from 



Europeans to the study of the oriental filling- up the lacuna of which I com- 



living languages; and also drawn the plain. Stiuckwithtliejusliceofthe.se 



attention and secured the sanction of complaints, and probably too with the 



several governments for this species of ill-founded reproaches of a scientifio 



study, and those who devoted themselves monopoly, which some learned men of 



to it ; the publication of numerous elc- Europe charged on those of India, 



mentary works has been favored and Mr. Wilson has occupied himself on 



encouraged ; several establishments con- the work in question ; and never fell a 



secrated to the teaching of these Ian- nobler enterprise into hands more wor- 



guages have been richly endowed, and tiiy, for Mr. Wilson unites an immensa 

 etijoy special protection, from which 



the noble emulation which exists be- • Amwa Sinha, sectio prima de ccelo, 



twceutheAcademy of the Oriental Lan- curante Paulino a .St. Bartholomaeo, Ko, 



guages of Vienna, the Royal College ni» 1798, 4to. The missionarv, whosa 



«f France, the Royal and Special School Indian erudition is at least suspicions, has 



«f the Oriental Languages at the Royal taken the name of the autlior for the titio 



liibrary at Paris, the College of Eort o* t^'e work, and we have evt- ry reason to 



William at Calcutta, the East-India believe thai he h;.s iuerely publisjied wliat 



College at Hertford, &c. &:c. May we 

 iioon have to add to this interesting no- 

 menclature the Asiatic Academy, of 

 which the plan lias been skilfully traced 

 on a grand scale in a memoir published 

 at St. Petersburgh in 1810. Such an 

 establishment would greatly contril)ute 

 to initiate us in the knowledge of the 



was executed so long a^o by Haiixlvdcu, 

 although the latter and his editor have em- 

 ployed the Malabar characters, with 

 .vvhicli I ain unacquainted; these charac- 

 ters,- if I may judge by the transcription 

 in Roman letters, corresponds pieily 

 exactly with the text written in Deva- 

 Dagari. 

 t Amara Cosha, a Sanscrit dictionary 



Tartar idioms, as the learned professors with an English interpretation, by H. T. 



«f Calcutta have prociired ns that of Colcbrooke, .Seranipore, 1808. I cannol 



the sacred language of the l^rahmins, refrain from observing here, that ti.e ai>- 



and its derivatives. Already several *!'"'' of t'»^ "'"st celebrated Sanscrit Uic- 



voluminouR grammars of this language Ho"ary is not perhaps anterior to the icth 



have been published at Calcutta, at cemmy: M. Bcutlcy emits the same opi. 



Serampore, and at London; but. that '''""'" "^, f *"","= R«^'aichos, vol. vii 



the icirned who study those precious H^.J.^it,')', «;;!.'!, nf!r'!i'?''" °^ 



1 • li J ■ ,■ ,1 ' II I "le eoition lie lias given or this dictioiiarv. 



works might derive Iron, them all the .-annot extend its antiquity bevon.i lOoJ 



fruit they were entitled to expect, a years ; lie places Amara Sinha and Cahdusa 



Saiiscrit Dictionary, explamed in au Jiu- Mbuut Bo'O -^ D. 

 Wg-NTHi-y Ma*. N«. 2^2. " 3Q ciientul 



