Sec, 6, 



tub glassarial connection detwe&n 



OATtGBTlC AND T13ttTAN. 



1. Oefieral temarks on the Bhoiian affmitm qf ih§ 



Gangetic and VHraindim language*. 



Th» Ultraindo-Ganff^'iir voi-abularies present two tlaaiiea of Bhotj'an 

 *flii(jiliea, eacli of whit h ha» two braiirjhtfu. 



Tlie 1st classi conpista of wnrds, or formji of worfls^ immefliately Jeriv- 

 rj-om Itliotian, and at if^aHt lu'o brandies may be d i^l i u idie d, vri, to- 

 e«b1e5 derived from !be iTiadern B(joii*n, and vocables derived from ibe 

 anrient ttr Wfit(en Bbolian. If^ as \h pfoLable, the etrr.np pl)orj(dn|rjr 

 atlh prei^ailed tbroughout the Bhoibn provimei! at ihe tim^ of tlie f\r»t 

 great irraptions into India, it U not nee*fif.«ftry to asaign an okfer date to 

 the v'orablea of the second brancb limn tbe t«rlier centuries of ibe Cbri*, 

 tianeru. Indeed ib^y may liave con tinned lo be im ported to a mtw li more 

 recant [urind, and may pnadibly <1>b still recpivfd into Sfime (•( tb'- Ilia: a. 

 layaii dlnledft si the nld phonnlopy be retained by any nf lie Kaui ]>a« 

 w bo fni^raie to itii<( dde of tbe sfiuw-m at the preeerit dsy. Wbelber 

 Wesiern Tibet directly sent vccables lo ifie ^outfiwartl before tlie age 

 fif Ihe Himalayan conqueiti!! iii a queittion lltat cannot yel be ancwered. 



The 2d and masi impofiant elates of Bhdiun affiiuiiefi are Ibo^e Vi'liich 

 eiiit in ^he Ultraindo-Gangeiic vrirabiilarif « not beCBtiwe iliey wirft 

 received from libfitian« but benante the Northern lin|ini»tic i^tofk of the 

 trtbea which use tbetn wait closely AlHi'd to the Bbf4ian. b(jlh baving 

 for baairi a coininon formation, i'liey maybe now con^iderfd b8 Sifan. 



Tb«?e arcbaic Tibeto UltraJodian or 4?ifafi vocables jio>se6s two fopma, 

 one characteristic of that niodiHfation of Ibe forinatioo which it Jind 

 ■when it first came in contact with the prior Mon-Anam formation of 

 Ultraindia, and the fither peculiar to tlie Bunnan brunch, which appearn 

 to hflve spread to the southward and ue!*twurd at a more reCfnt j-priud, 

 after having lon|£ remain* d jpclnded nnd comf-arstively pore in the North 

 Eaittern part of XJltraindia or the adjacent Klfan rnountaioR 1'he older 

 diflTuMed forms are penerally full and di.4sy!lahic, and the first syllable ii 

 frefluently a definitive prefix. The later form« sire nrrtarkably curt, and 

 in tiiiti re'tpect contrast n^t only with the olderi but with the Bhutian, lbs 

 Jatlfr having prtfijted consonants and frrqueBtly adding a fmiifii to mo. 

 nnaillahic mnts' 1 m\\ proceed to consider €ach of these ¥irieti«8 of thft 

 fihaliaa affinities moro pariicalarly. 



The absencs in Indian biislory of suf iinlJcfl of the modern 

 irrDptioD of the Bhotians intn the Himalayas and lb« plain of tha 

 Ganjiee, of which i>n«jiiTe bat faint historical fTidfrca exists in 

 Chinese books, esbibifa its partial ard nntrustwDrthy cliararter 

 in a MirncK lii^bt. li has preR^TTed no dii^tmct record of sa 

 event if so much importance tbit it |tave to the Biiralayat a new people 

 ind new dialpctB, subverted theancitni dynasiies of ib* plain,*— Arisn, 

 Diaviro UltraintJian or Ariaoisfd, — and Ud lo the rataidifbiBPnl ol a Ti* 

 betan dornintnn, wbicb laaied so irar.y cpoforits in Be r^jal as to sflVcl 

 uot only ihe ruder tanttosgfa nfsribe mronlairs, but, in a vetystfpht de- 

 jjree, Bengali itself. If a revolotbii of tbii kind, that beizao tome c-ntn- 

 ciei latei khm the ct>camefiC€iaentol ooi own and of iht pr«Tilcot In. 



