NOTES. xiii 



indici drama lyricum, ed. Chr. Lassen, 1836.) We possess a masterly metri- 

 cal translation by Riickert of this poem, which is one of the most, pleasing 

 and at the same time one of the most difficult in the whole of Indian litera- 

 ture. The translation renders the spirit of the original with admirable fider 

 lity, and presents a conception of nature the intimate truth of which animates 

 every part of this great composition. 



C ) p. 41. Journal of the Royal Geogr. Soc. of London, Vol. s. 1841, 

 p. 2 3 ; Riickert, Makamen Hariri's, S. 261. 



( M ) p. 41. Gothe im Commentar zum west-6'stlichen Divan : Bd. vi. 

 1828, S. 73, 78, and 111, of his works. 



C 65 ) p. 42. Vide le Livre des Rois, publie par Jules Mohl, T. i. 1838,. 

 p. 487. 



( 66 ) p. 42. Jos. von Hammer, Gesch. der schonen. Redekuuste Persiens, 

 1818, S. 96 (Ewhadeddin Enweri, who lived in the 12th century, in whose 

 poem on the Schedschai some have discovered a remarkable allusion to the 

 mutual attraction of the heavenly bodies; S. 183 (Dschelaleddin Rumi, the 

 mystic) ; S. 259 (Dschelaleddin Ahdad) ; S. 403 (Feisi, who came forward 

 at the court of Akbar as a defender of the religion of Brahma, and in whose 

 Ghazuls there breathes an Indian tenderness of feeling). 



t 67 ) p. 42. " Night comes on when the ink-bottle of heaven is over- 

 turned,' 3 is the tasteless expression of Chodschah Abdullah "Wassaf, a poet, 

 who has, however, the merit of having been the first to describe the great 

 astronomical observatory of Meragha, with its lofty gnomon. Hilali, of Aster - 

 abad, makes the disk of the moon glow with heat, and calls the evening dew 

 "the sweat of the moon." (Jos. von Hammer, S. 247 and 371.) 



O p. 42. Tuirja or Turan are names of which the derivation is still 

 undiscovered. Burnouf (Yacna, T. i. p. 427 430) has acutely called atten- 

 lion in reference to them to the Bactriau Satrapy of Turina or Turiva men- 

 tioned in Strabo (xi. 11, 3, pag. 517, lat.) : Du Theil and Gr.oskard, however, 

 Th. ii. S. 410) propose to read Tapyria. 



( 69 ) p. 42. Ueber ein finnisches Epos, Jacob Grimm, 1845, S. 5. 



( 7 ) p. 46. I have followed in the Psalms the excellent translation oi 

 Moses Mendelsohn (see his Gesammelte Schriften, Bd. vi. S. 220, 238, and 

 280). Noble after-echoes of the ancient Hebrew poetry are found in the 

 llth century in the hymns of the Spanish synagogue poet, Salomo ben Jehu- 

 dah Gabirol : they also contain a poetic paraphrase of the pseudo- Aristotelian 

 book, De Mundo. Vide die religiose Poesie der Juden iu Spanien, by 

 Michael Sachs, 1845, S. 7, 217, and 229. Sketches drawn from mture, and 



