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the first set of names ; here too, we have the final La, and the prefixes are pro- 

 bably mere charactistic epithets of the seasons, thus February is called Chella^ 

 but Chella means also the cold month, or winter. Further, however, I cannot 

 explain the meaning of the compounds. 



The Bkoti7/as, like the Newars, have no simple names for the months, but 

 call them periphrastically the first, second, &c. month. Dagwa and Ldwa^ 

 both mean a month ; but in speech this word is never prefixed, save in speak- 

 ing of the first JBhotiya month, or February, for from February their year 

 begins. What Tdngbu means, I know not, unless it be the same with Thamput 

 the word that always closes the series of numbers, 10, 20, 30, &c. The names 

 of all the others are easily explained, they being compounds of the numbers 

 2, 3, &c. with the syllable pa, or ba, evidently the La of the Newars post fixed. 



Newari names of the seven days of the 'weeh. 



Sunday, 



(s) Adhwina, or Chunna. 



Monday, 



(s) Swomwa, 



, Neno. 



Tuesday, 



(s) Ongwa, 



„ Svvono. 



Wednesday, 



(s) Budhwa, 



„ Peno. 



Thursday, 



(s) Bussowa, 



„ Gniano. 



Friday, 



(s) Sukrawa, 



„ Khonno 



Saturday, 



(s) Sonchowa, 



„ Nhuno. 



The first are wholly corrupt Sanscrit, and the second is formed by com- 

 pounding the word NM ovGni, a day, with the cardinals : the Newars have no 

 simple words of their own, expressive of the seven days. 



The Pdrhattiya Bhdsha is one of the Indian prakrits, brought into these 

 hills by colonies from below, and is so generally diffused, that in the provinces 

 west of the Gogra, it has nearly eradicated the vernacular tongues ; and 

 though less prevalent in those east of that river, it has, even among them, 



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