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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
JANUARY, 1873.
is no shade to stand under. The road to the north is not to be taken (v. 4).
With your dish of great millet you have many varieties of split pulse and the milk of well-fed buffaloes. Look at the riches of the middle country 1" (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 means of the middle country 1(v. 6.) You have your cakes of wheaten flour and the milk of the lusty buffaloes, and enjoy the love of 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 ! (v. 8.)
The forest of the west) is full of immature fruits; the country is full of huge trees ; promises are not kept. I have had quite enough of the Hill country (malanâdu, 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 eat. Can one declare the Hill country to be a good one ? (v. 11.) There is rice water, there is mud, there are hot dwellings, there are wives that are gratifying. Oh, look at the relieving features of the Hill country ! (v. 12.)
(But) in this (southern) direction Asuras have been born as men; Dasasira's (Ravana's) enemy has given them their name and rejected the region of the Tigulast (i. e. Tamulians) (v. 13). There are the Kaļakûţa poison, and such malice as you might experience if you trusted a scorpion. I have had quite enough of the wind of the Tigulas, who are like mean dogs that bark in a deserted village (v. 14). Better than a friend of the Tigulas is a barking bitch; better than the shadow of the Magaļi treet is the alligator of swallowing habits (v. 15). How shall I tell the self-conceit of the country where reasoning has been born! Sankara's worship (pôja) is practised excessively in the south (v.16).
In the east is passion (râga), in the north abstract contemplation (yoga), and mere sickDess (roga) in the west ; the south is the residence 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 the south they are pompons (v. 18). The east is for whoremasters (vița), the north for jesters (vidůshaka), the west for villainous catamites (pîțhamardaka), and the south for very smart fellows (nâgarika, v. 19). The east is for Hastinis, the north for Chitrinis, the west for Sankhinis, and the south for Padminisf (v. 20).
NOTES CONCERNING THE NUMERALS OF THE ANCIENT DRAVIDIANS.
By Rev. F. KITTEL, MERKARA. Or the mental faculties of the ancient Dravi- guage, wherein it bears the forms Bâsira, dians their Numerals bear some witness. From såsir, så vir a, ayira. them we learn that when apparently still free As we have seen, the early Dravidians were from all Aryan influence, they contrived to not behind the body of the Aryas in countcount up to a hundred. The earliest state of ing. To show their way of thinking in produetheir berds and flocks, and of their bartering, ing the numerals, we give the numerals up to did not make it necessary to go higher. In the ten, together with the nearest words indicative same way, not before the tribes that at present of their meaning. The longer forms stand by form the Aryas of the West had left their themselves, the shorter are used only as the first brethren, the later Zoroastrians and Brahmanas, | members of compounds (compare Gondi Nu&c., did these feel the necessity of the number merals in the Indian Antiquary, p. 129). "sahasra." This sahasra was, in course of time, 1. ondu, onru (pronounce : ondu), onji, borrowed from them by the Dravidians, and was OT, ôr, om, on. onda, ottu, to be also incorporated by them into their own lan- undivided, be one. A unit without a branch." Literally, country of growth (bolavala).
The Hindus may there are four classes of woment Tigula means person of abuse."
Padminis, Hartinia, Chitrants, and anthile, of which the The Maguli tree of the text is probably the Tamil first is the most perfect-Forbes' Ros Moli, vol. L p. 60. Magil, Maguda, Magila = Mim saops Elongi.
-ED. 5 Oar manuscript has sankbe which is corruption (either of manko doubt, or) of sankhy ronsoning or
* When the affix da is joined to a short monosyllabic of inkly, the system of philosophy.
root with final, the root in this case being or, this liquid 1 Bankars is either Sivs or the Vedanti Bankar (8'- is sometimes changed into the Bindu. Observe do has karlicharya).
become ji (in Tula), for which peculiarity compare No. 6.
