Mopern Imiration ov: THE Vepas,&c. 13, 
niinent of ‘these ‘changes’ are ‘the rejection*® Gf the hissing and ‘harsh. 
sibildate; being: the thirty-first and thirty-second consonants of the Négaré: 
system, “and” the substitution for thent® of 'the ‘soft sibilant, ‘expressed: 
tliroughout these works -by the Fitenéh chis the titter rejection of va as & 
letter and the substitution of ba in all cases where iteught to secur: the? 
conversion of the first vowel, @ short, into o, of the diphthong az into o7; 
of ya into ja, (written in ‘the preceding extract gea) of cha into sa, ja 
junto za; and ofcska into cya Chia). A’ comparison” of thé original 
extract with the interlined. correction/wilk furnish Yépeated’ examples of 
each of these changes—thus the soft sibilant’ ¢f is’ Written! for’ the hissing 
sibilant in the word chorbe, properly sarva, and for the harsh sibilant in 
richi, rishi; in the first syllablé of chirichon (sirsham) it is used for the 
corresponding Sénserit letter; but in the last it’ is substituted for thé Harsh 
sibilant. _. Tit ‘words bedo® (Veda), debo’ (déva), and many: othets va is 
‘converted to ba; majanam (mdydnam) is an instance’ of “the conversion | 
of ya into ja; somussojow (samuchchayam) of cha into sa and (Zoimen1), 
(Jatment), of ja into s@ and of ai into of: okioram for acsharam, affords 
an iistance of’ the lapse of the esha:—All thé Pseudd-Védas éonform, in’ 
the: Saisert:part to these! changes’ as‘ uniformly’ as’théy will be! found to 
take place in the preceding extract s.and in addition, however, to thesé 
dialectic variations the author has still further disfigured the language by 
dropping all the aspirated letters, as cha, gha, chha, &c. and by retaining 
only ‘one of many compound-consonants, asin theword written ¢ochin ‘for 
tasmim, Gays vornrml cup oO! 
* See Dr. Carey’s Bengdéli Grammar for the several changes here noticed in the latter part of Sect. I. 
* On the pronunciation of the letters,” frcm page 4 to 10. , 
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