1837.] on the Allahabad pillar. $65 



occur, I have collected as emendata in the subjoined note*. To a few 

 of them I must however take the liberty of alluding more particularly. 

 In the first place, it is evident, although it escaped my notice 

 before, that the final e of many words is the representative of the 

 Sanskrit visnrga, and not solely of the seventh case as I had imagined, 

 or of the plural as in the Hindustani. Thus in the opening words, 

 Devdnampiye Piyadasi represent the Sanskrit ^rr^tfafT: fa^fsh 

 the ye and se stand for ~q\ and ^: and consequently govern singular 

 verbs, as, ye cha sampatipajisati se sukatam kachhati : ye patibhogam 

 no e'ti : — &c. Again in the catalogue of birds and animals prohibited 

 from being eaten we find that all those ending in e agree with the 

 Sanskrit masculine nominatives as suke, arune, chakavdke, &q. while 

 sdrihi, jatukd, ajakd, edakd, are agreeably to Sanskrit analogy femi- 

 nines. Attention to this circumstance may help to determine some of 

 the doubtful animals ; thus arune (not arane wild) is most probably the 

 ^j^Tjr: of Sanskrit poetry, the fabulous elder brother of garuda the bird 

 of Vishnu : the pandits say it is the adjutant. Again the Allahabad text 

 has anathika-machhe, valueless fish; and sankujaf machhe, shell-born 

 fish ; therefore it is plain the paragraph is not restricted to the feathered 

 tribes ; and, removing this restriction, we find much more plausible 

 translations for many of the words : — dudi (not dadi) ~^fk: a small or 



* Corrections or variations observed in comparing the Allahabad facsimile with 

 the published Delhi text. 

 North Compartment, line 5 for usihend and chakho, read usdhena smdchukho. 



6 for vadhisatichevi, read vadhisati cha, vd. 



7 for anuvidhiyanti, read anu vi dhiyanti. 



12 for chakho, read chakhu. 



13 for vividha, read vividhe. 



14 for dakhindye, read dakhindye. 



15, 16 for heva, chiran thiti, and hotutiti, read hevam% 



chirathiti hotitii. 

 18 for p&pampdpe',re&&papakam pdpake, and for Idja 

 and aha, read Idjd and dhd passim. 

 West Compartment, line 17 for payihanti, read payisanti. 

 South Compartment, line 2 for sdyatha, read se yathd, 



3 for arane, read arune. 



4 for jatukd ambaka pilika dadi, re&d jdttika am- 



bdki pilika dudi. 



5 for sakujdmave, read sankuja machhS. 

 East Compartment, line 4 for hetavakheti, read hita sukheti 



6 for hemeva, read hevam mi vd. 



9 for mokhyamate, read mokhyamuti. 

 f It is doubtful whether the j has not a vowel e also, which would make it shell- 

 fish, and other fish. 

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