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(6) a certain number of additional current words added by the 
Revisers. With regard to these last two, it is a still greater pity that 
they were not marked by some distinguishing sign. 
(7) Philosophical explanations of Buddhistic religious terms. 
(8) Information of what may be termed an Encyclopedic character. 
It is perhaps under this last head that the chief amount of addi¬ 
tional matter may be said to fall. 
To take a couple of concrete examples of common words. Under 
dus, “ time,” in Jaschke’s we find four columns equivalent to nearly 
five columns of the present Dictionary. In Desgodins’ (including 
and which in the other dictionaries fall under 
) we find nearly three columns, equivalent to less than two columns 
of the present Dictionary, whereas the present Dictionary gives seven-and- 
a-half columns. Again, take the common word rta , “a horse,” in 
Jaschke’s we find rather more than two columns, equivalent to two-and- 
a-half columns of the present Dictionary; in Desgodins’ four-and-three- 
quarter columns, equivalent to two-and-a-half columns of the present Dic¬ 
tionary; whereas in the present Dictionary we find nearly seven columns, 
which contain (inter alia ) besides various literary references, a list of 
mythical medicinal properties which, various parts of a horse are supposed 
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to possess, some zoological information about the horse-ibex ( ^m) 
and where specimens of it have been found ; some geographical informa¬ 
tion about the source of the River Brahmaputra (^' p-^qq) 
“ the horse-mouth river; ” and the life of a Buddhist saint 
Rta Dbangs. The first two are new, but the two latter occur in Jaschke 
but with only a brief reference. 
To go more into detail, under the heading of “ Horse ” in the present 
Dictionary there are 80 separate words and phrases explained, besides 
41 synonyms referred to. Of these synonyms 17 are for “ horse ” 8 
for a mythical horse of Indra, 4 for “ rider, ” 5 for “foal, ” and 7 for 
“ horse tail , ” the name of a medicinal plant. Of these 80 words and 
phrases 41 occur in Jaschke, who also has 30 other words not included, 
25 of which are names for the various colours of a horse; and 22 occur 
in Desgodins, who also has 34 other words not included in the present 
