1872.] F. S. Growse— The Tirtlias of JBrlndahan and GoJml. 183 



handy, but is the plirase Sanskritic Vernaculars, which his predecessors 

 including Max Muller, the greatest philologist of the day, have used, less 

 so ? The same remark applies to the long-winded phrases he has given with 

 reference the term Indo-Aryan. 



" As to his idea of the impossibility of the Graurian comprehending both 

 the ancient Prakrits and the modern vernaculars, he will find that Mar- 

 kandeya in his Prdhrita Sarvrs'va includes Grauda in his list of languages 

 and dialects which come under the head of Prakrit. Doubtless, Dr. Hoernle 

 adds that " an objection taken from the manner of its (Gaudii/as) use by 

 Sanskrit writers is irrelevant." But I must confess my extreme reluctance 

 to submit to this line of reasoning, as I feel pretty certain that were I, a 

 foreigner, to say that man in English must indicate dormice, or some such 

 animals, as well as human beings, and that " an objection taken from the 

 manner of its use by English writers is irrelevant," very scant credit will be 

 given me, and that most justly, for the relevancy of my argument. I may 

 add also that European scholars do make mistakes, as is but natural, when 

 they are misled by inaccurate terms, and the Dravidian of Caldwell misled 

 no less an oriental scholar than Dr. John Muir, who, seeing a reference to 

 the Dravidian form of the Prakrit in one of my essays, mistook it for a 

 Tamilian language. Had Caldwell used the generally current and well- 

 understood term Tamilian, instead of Dravidian in a sense of his own, this 

 mistake would never have occurred. In short, I must say that it is 

 infinitely better, when talking of current languages derived from the Sansltrit, 

 to call them Sanskritic vernaculars which will come home to all and every 

 body, than to beat about the bush, and use an ambiguous and uncertain word 

 like Gaurian which has one signification in Sanskrit and another in Dr. 

 Hoernle's essay." 



2. — Oil the Tlrthas of Bi^inddhan and Gokul. — By F. S. GtROWSE, M. A. 



B. C. S. 



(Abstract.) 



Mr. Growse describes in this paper the antiquities of Brindaban and 

 Gokul. The oldest architectural remains of the former town refer to Akbar's 

 reign, and it seems that, though now so well known as a place of pilgrimage, 

 it only acquired its fame of sanctity in comparatively modern times. Mr. 

 Growse also discusses General Cunningham's identification of KUsohoras, the 

 Carisohora of Pliny, with Brindaban (' Ancient Geography,' p. 375), and 

 shews that the name cannot refer to it. 



The paper forms a continuation to Mr, Growse's Essay on the ' Country 

 of Braj,' and has been referred to the Committee of papers for orders to print 

 it in the Journal. 



