Indian Antiquary Vol 25

SR No.: 032517
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 366
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 14 MB

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JULY, 1896.1
MISCELLANEA.
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154. The following is the Aorist of the intransitive verb w
peun, to fall:
.m
pegas پیوس pegas پیس
peyi پی
com
peyi . (u), peók (pik) (Bob) suga pyöva (pyova) olan peyak
peyiva peô (pet)02 w piyi or piyéyi piyi or piyêyi 4 piyi or piyêyı]
(To be continued.)
MISCELLANEA. CHEYLA.
| 1857.-"Chot, chetak, chora, chera, chels, This would appear to be the form under which a servant, a slave brought up in the house, a pupil, this wellknown word usually appeared to the disciple." - Forbes, Hindustani Dictionary, Anglo-Indian of a century ago. It was then in 8.00. common use in senses which are not to be found 1857. -"Chela, by redup. chéláchățd (chela, in Yule's Hobson-Jobson, nor curiously enough in Hind.), a disciple, a pupil, an elève of." - Molesany of the Indian Dictionaries available to me. worth, Marathi Dictionary, 8.1. Originally a Hindu word meaning & servant,'
1 1872. -- "Chit . . .. to be a servant many changes have been rung upon it in Hindu life, so that it has meant a slave, a household slave,
.... cheta, ohotaka, cheda, chedaka, a family retainer, an adopted member of a great
a servant, #slave, a minister who fulfils an family, a dependant relative and a soldier in its |
appointed duty." - Monier-Williams, Sanskrit secular senses; a follower, a pupil, a disciple and a
Dictionary, 8.vv. convert in its ecclesiastical senses. It has passed 1875. — “Cetako, ceto (ceta), a servant, a out of Hindu usage into Muhammadan usage with slave. - Childers, Pali Dictionary, 3.vv. much the same meanings and ideas attached to it,
1876. "Chera, chera, chelaka, chela, from and has oven meant a convert from Hinduism to
cheda, a servant, slave brought up in the house, Islâm..
a pupil, a disciple." - Bate, Hindi Dictionary, In the last century, persons bearing the title - it can hardly be called the stigma of chela
1879. - "Chela, . .. played so important a part in current politics, and
S. chota, Pali the word was so familiar in its applied senses, that
chato, & disciple, learner, follower." - Fallon, to the Anglo-Indian of that day it required no
Hindustani Dictionary, e.o. reference and no explanation, though nowadays 1884. - "Chet, chotak, chera, cheraa, some of the secondary senses have become so far l cherw. chala. chelnka . . . . serrant. forgotten that the modern Dictionaries have slave, .... (S. chetakah and chedakah) missed them, and so comprehensive a work as a servant, a slave (brought up in the house) a Burnell's and Yule's Hobson-Jobson has failed to pupil, disciple, follower." - Platts, Hindustani record it.
Dictionary, 3.00. I, therefore, make no apology for the lengthy
1885. - "Cheld (Hindi, said to be from the quotations which follow to prove the uses to
Sanskrit cheta, a servant), a disciple, a pupil: which it has been put, and giving its history for
especially the disciple of a guru or a mabanta. In the last four centuries. R. O. TEMPLE
Kangra also a magician." - Whitworth, Anglo
Indian Dictionary, 8.0. The Dictionaries.
1888.-"Chêla (Sanskrit chotaka, chedaka) 1854. - "Chera, chela, a disciple, a pupil, a - a disciple of an ascetic or holy man: in slang a servant, a slave." - Lodiana Mission Panjabi hanger-on at a rich man's house who eats scraps." Dictionary, s.vv.
- Crooke, Rural Glossary, 8.0. • Pronounce jeo.