THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. UEW SEEIES. VOLUME THE SIXTEENTH. LONDON: TRUBNER AND CO., 57 & 59, LUDGATE HILL. MDCCCLXXXIV. STEPHEN AUSTIN AND SONS PRINTERS, HERTFORD. CONTENTS OF YOL. XYI. [new series.] ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. — PAGE Art. I. The Story of Devasmita. Translated from the Kathd Sarit Sdgara, Taranga 13, Sloka 54, by the Rev. B. Hale Wortham, M.R.A.S 1 — Art. II. Pujahs in the Sutlej Valley, Himalayas. By William Simpson, E.R.G.S., Hon. Associate R.I.B.A 13 — Art. III. On some Hew Discoveries in Southern India. By Robert Sewell, M.R.A.S., Madras Civil Service 31 — Art. IV. On the Importance to Great Britain of the Study ofArabic. By Habib Anthony Salmone, M.R.A.S 38 — Art. V. Grammatical Vote on the Gwamba Language in South Africa. By Paul Berthoud, Missionary of the Canton de Vaud, Switzerland, Stationed at Valdezia, Spelonken, Transvaal. [Prepared at the request of Mr. R. N. Cust, Hon. Secretary] 45 — Art. VI. Dialect of Tribes of the Hindu Khush, from ColonelBiddulph’sworkonthesubject(eorrected). The Boorishki Language 74 — Art. VII. Grammatical Note on the Simnuni Dialect of the Persian Language. By the Rev. James Bassett, American Missionary, Tabriz. [Communicated by Mr. R. N. Cust, Hon. Secretary] 120 vi CONTENTS. — PAGE Art. Till. Etymology of the Turkish Numerals. By S. W. Koelle, Ph.D., Corresponding Member ofthe Royal Academy of Science in Berlin, and late Missionary of the Church Missionary Society in Constantinople 141 — Art. IX. Grammatical Note and Vocabulary of the Lan- guage of the Kor-ku, a Kolarian Tribe in Central India. CommunicatedbytheHonorarySecretary, Mr. R. N. Cusr 164 — Art. X. The Pariah Caste in Travancore. By S. Mateer, Trevandrum, Travancore, South India 180 — Art. XI. SomeBihar!Folk-Songs. Contributed by George A. Grierson, B.C.S., Member of the Asiatic SocietyofBengal, Officiating Magistrate of Patna 196 — Art. XII. Some further Gleanings from the Si-yu-ki. By the Rev. Prof. S. Beal, M.R.A.S 247 — Art. XIII. On the Sites of Brahmanabad and Mansurah in Sindh with Notices of others of less note in ; their Vicinity. By Major-General M. R. Haig, M.R.A.S 281 — Art. XIV. Antar and the SlaveDaji. ABedoueen Legend. By St. Clair Baddelev, M.R.A.S 295 — Art. XV. Observations upon the Languages of the Early Inhabitants of Mesopotamia. By Theo. G. Pinches, M.R.A.S 301 — Art. XVI. On the Origin of the Indian Alphabet. By R. N. Cust, Esq., Honorary Secretary R.A.S 325 — Art. XVII. The Yi king of the Chinese, as a Book of Divination and Philosophy. By the Rev. Dr. Edkins, M.R.A.S 360 CONTENTS. — Art. XYIII. On the Arrangement of the Hymns of the Rig-veda. By Frederic Pincott, H.R.A.S 381 — Art. XIX. S'uka-sandesah. A Sanskrit Poem II by Lakshmi-dasa. With Preface and Notes in English, by H. H. Raha-Varha, Maharaja of Travancore, G.C.S.I., M.R.A.S., and a Com- mentaryby Kerala-varma. — Art. XX. The Chinese Book of the Odes for English Readers. By Clement F. R. Allen, Esq., M.R.A.S 453 — Art. XXI. Note sur les mots sanscrits composesavec Hffl- Par J. van den Gheyn, S.J., M.R.A.S 479 — Art. XXII. Some Remarks on the Life and Labours of Alexander Csoma de Koros, delivered on the occasion when his Tibetan Books and MSS. were exhibited before the Royal Asiatic Society on the 16th June, 1884. By Surgeon-Major Theodore Duka, M.D., F.R.C.S., late of the Bengal Army 486 — Art. XXIII. Arab Metrology. Y. Ez-Zahrawy. Trans- latedandAnnotatedbyM.H. Sauvaire,M.R.A.S., de l’Academie de Marseille, Consul de France 495 . . Index 525 Proceedings of the Sixty-First Anniversary Meeting of the Society, held on the 19th of May, 1884 i-clviii CORRIGENDA. Page 331, 1. 32, for “Shamaji,” read “Shyamaji.” „ 337, 19, Report, p. lxxiv, 1. 3, for “Mr.” Chotzner, read “Dr.” „ „ 8, for “ notice by the same writer,” read “paper by Dr. Chotzner.” NOTE FOE BINDERS. 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