Comparative Grammar of the Languages of Further India: a Fragment and Other EssaysW.H. Allen & Company, 1881 - 192 pages |
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aboriginal affinity affix Ahoms alphabets Anam Anamese ancient Arracan Hill Arracanese Aryan Assam Banar Bengal bodian Brahmans branch Buddha Buddhist Burman Burmese Cambodian and Anamese century character Chepang China Chinese city of Thatone civilization clans common connection consonant derived dialects Dravidian evidence existence expressed Foonan Gangetic Garnier Gautama grammar Gulf of Martaban hill tribes India Indo-Chinese peninsula Indra influence inhabitants inherent vowel intercourse Irawadi Karen Karen languages Khyen kindred kingdom Kolarian Kshatriyas Kumi Max Müller Mekong rivers Mon language Mon-Anam Mon-Anam family Mon-Anam languages Mon-Anam race Mons mountain Nága nagá-ma nations native neighbours Nipál noun numerals occupied old Cambodian origin Pali peculiar Pegu Phayre plural possess prefixed present preserved pronoun province region religion Salween Samre savage tribes Shan Siam Siamese simple roots Singpho singular sonant Souc sound Stieng surds Talain Thatone Tibetan Tibeto-Burman traditions Turanian valley verbal roots words Xong Yunnan
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Page 8 - In the latter most words and grammatical forms were thrown out but once by the creative power of one generation, and they were not lightly parted with, even though their original distinctness had been blurred by phonetic corruption. To hand down a language in this manner is possible only among people whose history runs on in one main stream ; and where religion, law, and poetry supply well-defined borders which hem in on every side the current of language. Among the Turanian nomads no such nucleus...
Page 192 - Ministering to the worthy ! doing harm to none ! Always ready to render reverence to whom it is due, Loving righteousness and righteous conversation, Ever willing to listen to that which may profit another, Rejoicing to meditate on the true Law, And to reflect on the words of Divine Wisdom, Practising every kind of self-discipline and pure life, Always doing good to those around you. * * * * ' * * This ia indeed the wisdom of a true disciple.
Page 113 - Sythians reduced all things, whether rational or irrational, animate or inanimate, to the same dead level, and regarded them all as impersonal. They prefixed to common nouns, wherever they found it necessary, some word denoting sex, equivalent to male or female, he or she; but they invariably regarded such nouns as in themselves neuters, and generally they supplied them with neuter pronouns.
Page 8 - Turanian roots, point to a single original source ; and the common words and common roots which have been discovered in the most distant branches of the Turanian stock, warrant the admission of a real, though very distant, genealogical relationship of all Turanian speech.
Page 181 - I will ask you, then, if a man in worshipping the gods sacrifices a sheep, and so does well, why should he not kill his child, his relative or dear friend, in worshipping the gods, and so do better ? Surely, then, there can be no merit in killing a sheep! It is but a confused and illogical system this.
Page 84 - I35°> was but the ruin of an ancient place belonging to Kambuja (now known as Cambodia), formerly called Lawek, whose inhabitants then possessed Southern Siam, or Western Kambuja.
Page 184 - On account of ignorance, merit and demerit are produced ; on account of merit and demerit, consciousness; on account of consciousness, body and mind; on account of body and mind, the six organs of sense; on account of the six organs of sense, touch (or contact); on account of contact, desire; on account of desire, sensation (of pleasure or pain); on account of sensation, cleaving (or clinging) to existing objects; on account of clinging to existing objects, renewed existence (or reproduction after...
Page 44 - Irrawaddy), continuing its route by sea in the great bay (or gulf of Martaban), in a north-westerly direction ; it then entered the bay (of Bengal), which they crossed, and coasted the frontiers of several kingdoms. In about a year it was able to reach the mouth of the river of India, and ascended the river 7,000 If, when it arrived at its destination.
Page 182 - at one moment you speak of your discipline leading to a definite condition of Being (bhuva), and the next you say it admits of no return — this is strange." "And so it is," said Alara, "for this condition of which I speak is that of the Great Brahma, whose substantial existence is one of perfect quietude, without beginning, without end ; without bounds or limits, no first or last, his operations inexhaustible, his form without parts or marks — immutable, incorruptible."