1834.] in the Sanskrit language. r 6 



\B or 14. ^^r bhiwana ; the world, or universe : the seven upper and 

 seven lower heavens. 



T" 5 ? Indra, anameof thegodlndra, (renewed at fourteen epochs.) 



1«T Manu ; the fourteen munoos, or saints. 

 \* or 15. ffrfa tit hi ; a lunar day, (fifteen in a semilunation.) 



^T^ aha ; a day, (from the same analogy.) 

 T^ or 16. ^r^TT kald ; a digit, one-sixteenth of the moon's diameter. 



^f% akhri • a metre, consisting -of four lines, having sixteen 

 syllables in each. 



*m nripa ; a king, (and its synonymes, from the tale of the 

 1 6 rajas in the Mahdbhdrat .J 

 \^ or 1 7. ^JH?fs aty akhri ■ a stanza of four lines, with seventeen syllables 



to the line. 

 V£ or 18. "yfw dhriti ; ditto having eighteen syllables in a line. 

 \C or 19. ^frT^fVr atidhriti, ditto with nineteen syllables in each line. 

 ^» or 20. «H3 nakh ; a finger nail. 



H\ or 21. ^31 Swerga; heaven. The twenty one heavens. 

 H.1 or 22. STrfff Jdti, kind, sort; race, family, cast. 

 RU or 24. f5T«r Jina ; the 24 Jinas of the Buddh religion. 

 ^> or 25. f}«ef tatwa ; the 25 essences : the five quintuple elements. 

 ^ or 26. ^3fT3Tf?r utkriti ; in prosody, a stanza of four lines of twenty- 

 six syllables each. 

 ^> or 27. *T or *r^ nakshatra ; a star, the 27 lunar mansions. 

 "3R. or 32. <£*fi danta ; a tooth, the number of human teeth. 

 33 or 33. ^«f Deva, a god, for the 33 crores of Hindu gods ; or by other 

 accounts, 1 1 Rudras, 1 2 Suryas, 8 Vasus, and 2 Viswadevas. 

 8<£ or 49. fTTST tana ; tune ; the seven octaves (of seven notes each.) 



"37*7 vdyu, the air, the 7 vayus and their 7 subspecies. 

 On looking over Mr. A. Csoma's manuscript translations and extracts 

 from the Tibetan works in the Society's library, my attention was at- 

 tracted to the passage in his life of Shakya, where the Tibetan., author 

 quotes the epoch of Buddha from a variety of different authorities : here 

 the same numerical system is seen to prevail ; — the printed Tibetan text 

 has the dates in figures above, and written at length in the body of the 

 text, in the same kind of symbolical words, as if to secure them from 

 the danger of alteration ; this system in fact gives the same safeguard 

 against the incertitude of figures as the mode of writing values and 

 sums at length in European documents is intended to secure. To eluci- 

 date the subject at the time, a separate note was drawn up by Mr. Csoma, 

 shewing that the symbolical terms employed by the Tibetan writers were 

 chiefly if not entirely derived, like their literature in general, from Sans- 



