Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India: Inquiry whether the Hindus are of trans-Himalayan origin, and akin to the western branches of the Indo-European race. 3d ed. 1874John Muir Trübner, 1874 |
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... grammar were unknown , there could have existed any learned language distinct from the ordinary dialect of the people . Having thus shown cause for believing that Sanskrit , the original speech of the early Hindus ( or Indo - Arians ) ...
... grammar were unknown , there could have existed any learned language distinct from the ordinary dialect of the people . Having thus shown cause for believing that Sanskrit , the original speech of the early Hindus ( or Indo - Arians ) ...
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... Grammar ( including the important note by Mr. F. W. Ellis ) , and Dr. Caldwell's Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian languages , by which it is clearly shown that the Tamil , Telugu , Malayalim , and Canarese tongues ( which are spoken ...
... Grammar ( including the important note by Mr. F. W. Ellis ) , and Dr. Caldwell's Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian languages , by which it is clearly shown that the Tamil , Telugu , Malayalim , and Canarese tongues ( which are spoken ...
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... grammar , theology , and philosophy , while it is totally unintelligible to the mass of the people . We find , secondly , a variety of provincial dialects which are employed both by the learned and the unlearned , viz . , Bengali ...
... grammar , theology , and philosophy , while it is totally unintelligible to the mass of the people . We find , secondly , a variety of provincial dialects which are employed both by the learned and the unlearned , viz . , Bengali ...
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... Grammar , of treating all Prakrit words as necessarily modifications of Sanskrit words , is one which he has borrowed whole from Vararuchi and Hemachandra , and , however excusable in those ancient commentators , seems unworthy of an ...
... Grammar , of treating all Prakrit words as necessarily modifications of Sanskrit words , is one which he has borrowed whole from Vararuchi and Hemachandra , and , however excusable in those ancient commentators , seems unworthy of an ...
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... Grammar of Vararuchi , which is considered by Lassen to have been com- posed about eighteen hundred years ago , or rather in its commentary . An examination of the Prakrits which are found in these several works shows that the languages ...
... Grammar of Vararuchi , which is considered by Lassen to have been com- posed about eighteen hundred years ago , or rather in its commentary . An examination of the Prakrits which are found in these several works shows that the languages ...
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