1850.] Observations on the Language of the Gonds. S3 



Enumeration of Goods. 



Quantity 





Value. 





Duty. 





Pul. 



M. 



or. 



Es. 



A. 



p. 



Es. 



A. 



p. 



Abkaree contract, - 



7800 



0 



0 



o 



0 



0 



• 0 



0 



0 



Contract for sale of cattle, 



504 



0 



o 



°o 



0 



0 



0 



0 



0 



Do. for Rumnas, 



2400 



0 



0 





0 



0 



0 



0 



0 



Do. for sale of vegetables, 



600 



0 



0 



0 



0 



0 



0 



0 



0 



Do. for Mint and waste, 





















land within the walls, - 



3600 



c 



0 























182S8 



0 



0 









Grand Total... 









65913 



11 



6 









II. — Observations on the Language of the Gonds, South of the 

 Nerbudda. By Mr., Charles Egbert Kennet * Com- 

 municated by the Rev. W. Taylor. 



It is now no longer a prevalent opinion that the Sanscrit is the 

 parent of the principal languages of India. The following theory 

 was advanced in the preface to the IVth. Part of Dr. Rottler's Tamil 

 and English Dictionary, by the Rev. Wm. Taylor, who edited that 

 work after the death of its author. 



"The present writer" says Mr. Taylor speaking of himself " will 

 hazard an opinion (derived in a very great degree from wading 

 through the polyglot Mackenzie collection of MSS.) that there 

 was originally one simple, homogeneous dialect spoken by rude 

 simple aborigines from Himalaya to Cape Comorin : the earliest pro- 

 bable refinement was in the Pali of the North and the Tamil of the 

 extreme South. The Canarese ceased probably to be simply verna- 

 cular from the era of Mayura Verma, and the Malay alam afterwards, 

 when the Brahmans had spread themselves on the Western Coast. 



* These papers were drawn up from a less perfect specimen of the language of 

 the Gonds which appeared in one of the Calcutta Diocesan Committee's Reports . 

 "The Narrative of the Second Visit to the Gonds" herewith sent contains not only 

 a fuller vocabulary of words, but also some notices of the Grammar of the dialect. 



Charles Egbekt Kennet. 



Edeyengoody, 

 8th October, 1849. j 



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