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KTIISOLOOV OF TlUi lND»-PAC!Pm IfiLA?fD&. 



IrdnSan, Semitic, Caucasian and oilier Asiatic and African srstcnn 

 retaining tertm so farmefi. The Dnivirian numerrtls belong to 

 the same em of S. W, Asian civili^alion thnt gave hirib to these 

 in] proved system p, and tlrey must tliei^'fore Jrave Wen brought 

 into use in India long guliscqueiit to tliat period of its history 

 represented by Australian civilisation. The denary system Mad 

 not importeJ by the earliesit rnce, whetlier Negro or Australian, 

 which laid the foumJatioii of the Indian hingiiagcs, but by a 

 Bubsecjuent mee from S. W. Asia, whose civilisation was connected 

 with that in which the subsequent Semitic and Iraniun difTiisiona 

 originated. The Dravirian numeraU are not derived from any 

 of the leading Asiatic systems, and ibeir connection vriib these h 

 extremely remote. The Turkish ar^d Ugrian systems are nearer to 

 theCaucusian on the one side and to the more remote N.E. Asiatic 

 on the other, the Iranian is nearer the Semitic, and the African 

 are nearer the Semitic, the Iranian and the Scythic, than the 

 Dravirian is to any ot them. The introduction of the denary 

 •caie into India is probably connected with the advance into it 

 of one of those Scylbotd races ofpaJtially Irano-Semilic eharaetfr, 

 the archaic influence of «hich on the jdiysical form of the South- 

 ern Iiuliand is bo oheervable. The Todas may be nearly pure 

 descendeuta of tke very race which imported ihe system. • 



III. MISCELLANEOUS WORDS. 



For the miscellaneous glossarial comparisons of the Ultra indian 

 and Indian division of the present enquiry, it will be convenient 

 to take the li&t of sixty miscellaneous substantives originally cora- 



■ Dr Stevenson In hiii "ColIectJon of words frora tliu Toda JfinyaHpe" (Joum. 

 Bombuy As. yoc. i, liw, far tM'i) Rivt-s some foreign uHinilie*. 1 or 1 he tti(ttuc« 

 Ihe laitin utiua, Tuuai a. mukoiit, KoIIibI uriero. 2, Tnnjius. (fjulir, Arm, yergu. & 

 Cliintis*? iti^. 0 Turkish aiti, Yvnis.rani, iiLiam. 7 Ann. yeom. b Aim. m, Jjit. octo, 

 £ng, elpht, Han»k. luhta. tl Ue exp airi» as 1 lests lu. 10 lie comptirt'ti witl) the 

 Tibtftou hucJm, htit [tlie trae 'l ib. tbnu id hchu in whicli b b prefL\ua< and uncon- 

 necliU liistorically with the Urav. lubial rout, save in lur thai twih are ulti- 

 iiiDt^ly th4$ean:e dclltiltive]. 



The Rev. Btmbanl Sclimld, in hh " Essay on the ReTatlonship of Laniniagei 

 atirt Nations" (Mailma Journal v, 133) hiiJ uifto |ireviou»lv i;l<*;J7j given tabltw in 

 vhicii ihe Draviiiuri numerals art: compai t-d witli a ^t tnt variery uf foreign utiei^ 

 hat Ilia lifBnititfa urti lou indiscrlinliuiting. As 1 Imd not reHtl tJiispiiner wtien my 

 t oui|j. voc. nos prfnteil t hla Jiai (\>. lo7) iii the i'l dn ttriiiB, wliit-h conEniii* 

 soJtie varlaiiona not fuund in inj mk. 1 odd, cori't^pijniliiig with Dr Mevenson'a 

 urr und a cunti action of vmlila. '2atu, nir. 3 niulhu, muil. 4 italk, nank. 5 uj, 6 

 or, od. 7 or, uJ. b otihu< !) unbotk lU imitint, 11 ponnod Slc. 



[.'^oine rtjrnuiks un JJr. MiUlfr's couijiari^arw uf Dravirian vvitlr Sc?y!fiic nu- 

 WKiuli will Lc lountl jji wiother place] 



