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been more safely adopted, as the medium for the 

 introduction of Sanscrit vocahles into Malay u. ^lany 

 Sanscrit words that are in current use m Bengali, 

 likewise occur in Malayu, with almost the verr same 

 pronunciation. Of this it is easy to produce a mul- 

 titude of instances. The following are such as prer 

 sent themselves spontaneously : 



Beng\ ]yialay, 



Tot'hapi Tatapi but, however. 



Puriah .,...,... Pun farther, agaui. 



Tutkale Tutkala then. 



Bongsh Baugsii a race or family* 



Kichhu or Kichhi Kichi • a little. 



Inggit, a signal lugat notice.niemory. 



Barung, a gift, a thing, a quality. Barang-barang, any thing. 



But it is needless to adduce further instances ; as 

 the Malay history and the language itself, exhihit 

 traces sufficiently clear, to direct us to the region, 

 with which the Malays had the most Irequent inter- 

 course, at an early period, and from wh.ich their lan- 

 guage seems to have .'cceived the most considerable, 

 modifications, and that is the ancient kingdom oP 

 Kalinga. Here 1 am again under the necessity of 

 dissenting from Ma rsden's opinion. He says, ''It 

 is evident, that from the Telinga, or the Tamool, the 

 Malayan has not received any portion of its improve- 

 ment." I apprehend that the express reverse of i his 

 opinion is evident; for the Malays, at this very pe- 

 riotl, know the Coromandcl coast by no other name 

 than Tanna Keling, the land of Keling or Kalinga : 

 a multitude of compositions, current among them, 

 profess to be translations from the Basa-Keling, or 

 Kalinga language; and the Malay uVAWxxm^e contains 

 a great number of words that are Tarniil, Malayalam, 

 aud Telinga ; though neither Sanscrit, Hinduvi, nor 

 Guzerdti ; and a variety that are only to be found in 

 Telinga, the vernacular language of the Kalinga Desa. 



