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[JANUARy, 1873.

is no shade to stand under. The road to the north is not to be taken (v. 4).

been born as men ; Dašašira's (Rāvana's) enemy

(But) in this (southern) direction Asuras have

With your dish of great millet you have many

varieties of split pulse and the milk of well-fed

has given them their name and rejected the re gion of the Tigulast (i. e. Tamulians) (v. 13).

buffaloes.

Look at the riches of the middle

There are the Kālakāta poison, and such malice

country I" (v. 5.) With your dish of Panicum you have suitable split pulse and a lump of butter as big as a sling-stone. Look at the

as you might experience if you trusted a scor pion. I have had quite enough of the wind of the Tigulas, who are like mean dogs that bark in a

means of the middle country !" (v. 6.) You have

deserted village (v. 14). Better than a friend of the Tigulas is a barking bitch ; better than the shadow of the Maguli treet is the alli

your cakes of wheaten flour and the milk of the lusty buffaloes, and enjoy the love of a modest female. I have not seen the like (v. 7).

May cake-dust (that does not satiate) fall into the mouth of him who says that the country, wherein Bengal gram and wheat are sown and grown, should be burnt 1 (v. 8.) The forest (of the west) is full of immature fruits; the country is full of huge trees; pro mises are not kept. I have had quite enough of the Hill country (malanādu, v. 9). The climate is damp ; bellies are swollen ; ah, why should one go to a country where sinners stir and eat (their food) with wood (ladles—v. 10) * There are green ginger and turmeric ; there are jag gary and betel; there are good jack-fruits to

gator of swallowing habits (v. 15). How shall I tell the self-conceit of the country where reasoning § has been born 1 Sankara's | worship (pājā) is practised excessively in the south (v. 16). In the east is passion (rāga), in the north abstract contemplation (yoga), and mere sick ness (roga) in the west ; the south is the resi dence of sensual pleasure (bhoga, v.17). In the east people have no proper waists (or perhaps “clothes”), in the north they have no proper words, in the west they are greatly given to anger, in

mud, there are hot dwellings, there are wives

the south they are pompous (v. 18). The east is for whoremasters (vita), the north for jesters (vidiishaka), the west for villainous catamites (pithamardaka), and the south for very smart fellows (nàgarika, v. 19). The east is for Has

that are gratifying. Oh, look at the relieving features of the Hill country (v. 12.)

khinis, and the south for Padminis" (v. 20).

eat.

Can one declare the Hill country to be a

good one 7 (v. 11.) There is rice water, there is

timis, the north for Chitrinis, the west for Šan

NOTES CONCERNING THE NUMERALS OF THE ANCIENT DRAVIDIANs. BY REv. F. KITTEL, MERKARA.

Of the mental faculties of the ancient Dravi dians their Numerals bear some witness. From

guage, wherein it bears the forms sås ira,

them we learn that when apparently still free from all Aryan influence, they contrived to count up to a hundred. The earliest state of their herds and flocks, and of their, bartering, did not make it necessary to go higher. In the same way, not before the tribes that at present form the Aryas of the West had left their brethren, the later Zoroastrians and Brahmanas, &c., did these feel the necessity of the number

As we have seen, the early Dravidians were not behind the body of the Aryas in count ing. To show their way of thinking in produc ing the numerals, we give the numerals up to ten, together with the nearest words indicative

“sahasra.” This sahasra was, in course of time,

1. on du, on r u (pronounce : ondu), o fiji,

borrowed from them by the Dravidians, and was also incorporated by them into their own lan

or, 6 r, o m, on. on du, o t tu, to be

s à sir, s a vira, à y ira.

of their meaning. The longer forms stand by themselves, the shorter are used only as the first members of compounds (compare Gondi Nu merals in the Indian Antiquary, p. 129).

undivided, be one. A unit without a branch.**

+ Tigula means “a person of abuse.”

• “The Hindus say there are four classes of women—

Padminis, Hastinis, Chitranis, and Sankhinis, of which the

t The Maguli tree of the text is probably the Tamil

first is the most perfect.”—Forbes' Ras Mala, vol. I., p. 60.

• Literally, country of growth (belavalu).

Magil, Maguda, Magila = Mimusops Elengi. § Our manuscript has sank he, which is a corruption (either of sank e, doubt, or) of sank hye, reasoning, or

of s à n khye, the system of philosophy. | Sankara is either Siva or the Vedāntist Sankara (San karāchārya).

—ED.

• • When the affix du is joined to a short monosyllabic

root with final r, the root in this case being or, this liquid is sometimes changed into the Bindu.

bserve du has

become ji (in Tulu), for which peculiarity compare No. 5.