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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[OCTOBER, 1877.
Give us, O Indra, multitudes of good horses, NAMAMÅLÅ AND PÅLI GRAMMARS. with which we may offer our oblations by the re- SubhQti Unnânse, the Buddhist priest of Waskapetition of the proper sentences-by the prosper. duwa, in Ceylon, is already well known as the ing of which we may escape all sing. Do thou careful editor of the Abhidhdnappadipaka, a native now accept our service with much regard. Do PAli glossary, which, until the appearance of thou lead us safe through all sins by the way of Childers's great work, was the only lexicographisacrifice. And we have, in viii. 42, 3, O illustri- cal help available to Pali students. He has now ous Varuna, do thou quicken our understanding published a work entitled Namamdia, or "The
-We that are practising this ceremony--that we Garland of Nouns," a treatise in Sisihalese on the may embark on the good ferrying boat by which grammar of Påli nouns and adverby. The introwe way escape all sins.' On this the Aitareya duction-extending to more than a hundred Brilumana remarks :- Sacrifice is the good ferry- pages-contains a most valuable summary of all ing boat. The black skin is the good ferrying that is known to the native pandits concerning boat. The Word is the good ferrying boat. Hav- the history of Páli grammar, and gives the ing embarked on the Word, one crosses over to the author's name and date, the length in stanzas or heavenly world. Aitareya Brahmana, p. 10. cantos, and quotations of the first and last verses The commentator of the Taittiriya Sanhita re. of no less than sixty-four Pali grammars still marks thus on the same passage :- May we also known in Ceylon.-The Academy. embark on that safe and good ferrying boat of black skin, by which we may at once get over all | Prof. F. Wüstenfeld has completed his autosins that beset us. It was not unusual in those lithographic edition of El-Bekry's Geographical days for ferry boats to be made of leather.... Dictionary, in 864 pages. The work of writing it "Another reason for assimilating the saving
for the lithographic press must have been a severe boat with the Word' is that there was actually a
labour, and it must be admitted that, the edition hymn which was called plava, 'raft' or boat,' and
is a marvel of learness, and far pleasanter to the it was to be used daily. The plava is used daily.
eye than a printed Arabic book. Prof. Wüstenfeld Those who complete the sanwatsara sacrifice have
has added an excellent index, which will obviato to dip in the Sea (so called from the "excessive
the trouble caused by the author having arranged depth" of the Sacrifice, according to the commen
the articles in the order of the Maghraby alphatator). He who dips in the sea without a plava or
bet.--The Academy. raft never gets out of it. Where there is the plava, it leads to the attainment of the celestial
NOTES. world.'-Tandia Maha Brahmana, p. 293. Sacri
The Spanish Government has founded a Chair fice has accordingly been held in all Vedic trea
for Sanskrit in the University of Madrid, to which tises as the great remedy for sins and trespasses.
the first Professor appointed is Francisco Maria It is at the same time both a satisfaction for
Rivero, a gentleman who has studied Sanskrit in heinous and moral offences, and an atonement for Germany, France, and England, and is at present trivial mistakes and transgressions. Katyayana engaged in preparing a Sanskrit Grammar for his says that sacrifice procures heaven, and heaven Spanish pupils, and is editing the Hitopadeśa, is a word which stands for the highest happiness. with Spanish notes and a Glossary for the same. The commentator of the Taittiriya Samhita teils us that it is Nirriti, or the Sin deity, that is a
Mr. Redhouse has issued a pamphlet in "Vindidisturber of sacrifices....
cation of the Ottoman Sultan's title of Khalif,' "It is manifest that the sacrificial ritual did showing its antiquity, validity, and universal &c. not tranquillize the Brahmanical mind. It still ceptance." In it the author holds recent assertions brooded over theories of many kinds, it betook to the contrary to be erroneous," from the title itself to philosophy, and even submitted to accept being no new assumption, but dating from A.D. lessons from its hated rival, Buddhism, but with- 1517, and gradually and generally admitted by the out any tranquillizing result. They seem to have orthodox world of Islâm since; and futile, even had an idea that there must be a really saving sacri
were the legal argument solid, because, after 300 fice, and that their own ritual was but its distant re- years of possession, it would be too late to question flection. We repeat an expression we have already the right." (Vide ante. p. 231.) cited above, that Prajapati, or the Lord of creatures, is Sacrifice, for he made it a reflection (prati- Mr. A. Giles, of H. M. China Consular Service, ma) of himself. And he is further called atmada,' has published at Shanghai a translation from the or giver of self, whose shadow, whose death, is Chinese, entitled Records of the Buddhistic King. immortality (to us)."--Banerjea's Aryan Witness. doms.
