146 ETHNOLOGY OF THE INDO-PACiriO' ISLAND?* 



and Kon'an. The Bi-aliui billa, "bow/' is Dravirian, vii &c.* 



BOAT. 



The Indus vocaLularios to whicli I can rt'fer do not conlain tlio 

 ivordj and tlie oiber trans-Indiuii langimgea do not sufjply any 

 term ioa mud lately connected witli the DraMuhn [mni, jnidu, [mn 

 and paka.f The most remarkable fact connected witli the Dnixi- 

 rian terms is their iviJc prevalcuce atnongsl the leading niaritinie 

 Malayu-Polynosian tribes. Both terms are found combined in the 

 Sanskrit plavaka (also plava), a "ship/' J and as there is no reason 

 to think that the separate words were Sanskrit it is probable that 

 they borrowed the compound from the leading Tibelo-Dmvirtan 

 nation of the Ganges. TIjo same compound is found in the Cele- 

 besian padawaka whicli preservee the proper Dravirian form of the 

 first term. The current Gurung plava has the Sanskrit form. 

 Both the Dravirian terms have been disseminated over the 

 Sumatra-Polynesian ishmds, and their prevalence amongst all llie 

 navigating tribes of Asonesia shows that the pre-Arian nation of 

 the Lower Ganges gave to the inlanders their flying pi-aus", as 

 well as the horse. Tiie former as well as the latter belongs lo the 

 GangeticO'Uilfaindian and not to the prior Malagasy era of 

 Oceanic civilisation. The Niha-Polynesian race itself brought 

 both from their native seat on the shores of the Bay of Bengal. 



The foreign alRniticg of the Dravirian val, van, pan, pad, par, 

 pal, as well as of vak are probably to be found in the archaic 

 Semitico- African vocahularies. I do not find these terms, or pa, 

 which appears to be the common root, in any of the Klaproth's 

 Mid and East Asiatic lists, but it must be remarked that be only 

 gives the term " ship in several and that even it does not occur 

 in the Ugrian and Yeniseian ones. The Semitic elements bur 



• While this MCtioti Ss nasalnpr througli the press I have received Koelle's Poit/- 

 glatta Afiicana, which allows that the Inblal term for *'aTro\v" is not contined to 

 K Africa and Mtiiaga-^y. In addition to thu African wurds. giyen in App, B 

 1 can now cite rtban (pt, obon) Mhofon, /ebon Udom, ]ienft, jui, pema Guresa, 

 cfii, ofa &c Yomba group, ivan liwi &c ; ban, vaa &c correspond with tJie 

 Matasaey uvaait. 



t The Brahui l>ed! haa distinct connections, 



t Tliese terms are ^'wu hy Bopp in Im Comp. Oram, and are nnt the ordinary 

 Sanaiti-it onea for &liip or boat. The principal of tiie proper Arion roota is naii 

 (Comp. naiw, uavii oauka. It is ]>03sible liowcver tlwt tliere £s a connection 

 between nao-ka and plava-ka, and that both contain the root nau^nav, lau, lav. 

 The Teluga padava may he a derivative from niava, M'hatevcr may be tiie con- 

 nection ttf the Sansltritic and Draviriiiii wortw, tlicm can be no duubt aa to ilie 

 Indian origin of the Maiav u-Fofyneaiaii [nun, fuiuu, pndawaka, waka, vaka kc. 



