Indian Antiquary Vol 08

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[FEBRUARY, 1879.
Dravida line offers no difficulty whatever. Dravida Bopp, for the sake of comparison, thought of a od, 'to read, to recite,' as to form could be derived Sk. root with final iy, viz. of Vedic Vpiy, 'confrom Sansksit vad or vach, but there is no necessity vitiari', 'to abuse', 'to scoff. Vedic piydru, for doing so.
plyaka, piyatnu, piyu, mean'a scoffer. Ply curi2. Palli, the palli of Sk. dictionaries, is & ously reminds one of Dravida pey,' a demon', conf. Dravida term of Vpad, pay, pav, pal, 'to lie Sk. phi, 'a rascal.' Prof. Benfey ccnfers pējór down', 'to settle', 'to go down' (conf. No. 13). (referred by Prof. Bopp to ply) with pápa. It Padli, i.e. palli, means 'a house; a settlement or seems unnecessary to remark that 'to hate' does village. From the same root pad, amongst not coincide with pag (hag), but with Sk. Vsad. others, Sk. patta, hatta, hatti, pattana, are derived. 5. Pog,'to go away', or to go. Baivw and vento Pattana has also the form of pattana, but it are generally compared with Sk. Vgam or gd. would not be advisable on account of this curiosity The archaio form of pogor hog is pog (hoy), to identify Sk. pat in the meaning of to descend" which presupposes a form pod or hod. This with Dravida pad, as their meaning does not quite form, viz. hod, 'to go', occurs in Sk. dictionaries, coincide. For my own part I suppose that villa into which it has been transplanted from Dravida. or vella belongs to Sk. Vvri, 'to surround, to 6. Pala, 'several, many.' As the root of this enclose.
the pag of No. 4 may be taken ; or one may think 3. Pěn. This belongs to Vpid, 'to come in- of the Dravida pal (pod), pal, pag, pay, pal, pan, to close contact; to seize. A secondary root is ban, val, 'to increase', bal, bal, to grow, to pěn, pon, pol, to unite. The female elephant is thrive'; par, 'to grow extensive, to spread.' With pidi. Pods, potta, pon, pon, pěnti, pěnda, pendu, pedu, regard to form and meaning there exists a noticepedě, pěyya, 'female'; pendli, pèlļi (i.e. pēd?i), '& able connection between Nos. 4 and 6; conf. also match or marriage. Regarding the meaning conf. No. 7, Sk. phal, 'to burst; to expand, to bloom Sk. panigrahana, 'marriage'; pdnigrdha, 'a hus- (p.p. phulla); sphat, sphant, to burst; to open, band.' The beginning of a popular song of the to expand' (p.p. sphutita); further compare Sk. Badagas on the Nilagiri is:"Totadamma of twelve sphar, 'to spring up, to swell, to spread' (p.p. years, timely married, and quickly seized (Vpid) sphurita)' Conf. Sk. patala, ' a heap, a multitude'; the hand" (of the great king Liñga). If this pid pallava, "extension, a sprout, a shoot. I cannot cannot be shown to be an original household but believe that the three Sk. roots adduced word of the Aryas, either pěn has been borrowed under this head are of Dravida origin; but fail by them, or 'hen', 'bean', belong to a different to see that Dravida pal bears a direct affinity root. For the present I recognize pid only into molý, A. . fela, German voel, voel (plús = prdyas ; the obscure Sk. roots pis, pinj, 'to seize' (Adana), pars = prithak). These are related to Sk. roots pri, whịch are regular modifications of it. Pen, 'to pri, and púr, 'to be full or filled', which complex unite', occurs as pen (blesha) in Sk. dictionaries. of bases might rather be connected with the Fémina has been connected with Sk. bha (Ohd- Draviđa themes pul, põl, 'to increase' (see No. vaya). I think I am not mistaken in doubting 7); but the root of these is pud. even the radical nature of the initial in pěn.
7. Pa, povuor puvvu,'a bloom or blos4. Pagai, ha gě, or pagě,"variance', dis- som.' Shall it at once be said that pú and ploos cord', 'enmity' ; an opponent', belongs to Vpag, fos, a blossom', belong to the same root? I think 'to be severed by an intervening space'; 'to we have at least to seek for a medium. The ancient separate or divide'; the root appears also as pañg, Dravida vpud or pod that concerns us here, and pad, pa!, pas, pan, par, bag, pag, and vañg. Its initial that bears also, e.g., the forms put, pul, pug, pred, letter is not exactly radical. Sk. pat, 'to divide, put, pul, pur, pur, pol, pol, pog, pos, pol, pon, põr, pú; to split, to break'; vat, vant, vand, 'to divide'; sphat, pod, pol, pog, pot, pod, por, pos, has among others sphant, to burst, to break,'; phal,' to burst'; hal, the following meanings :-to burst, to open, to
to divide, to dig, to plough', are more than pro expand, to come or break forth, to rise, to increase, bably borrowed from Dravida pag (conf. No. 6). to swell; to flash, to glitter, to burn. Sk. Vedic Sk. bhaj, 'to divide;' bhanj. (bhang), to split', sphut, sphunt, sphund, to burst, to open, to exthough related as to sound, may or may not be pand; to become manifest, to appear'; spkur, radically connected with it; with bhauj, Lat. 'to break forth, to swell; to glitter'; sphul, 'to frango, Coth. brikan, &c., have been compared. collect; to appear'; put, punt,'to shire', accordWhether A.S. feogean, fian,'to hate': fák, a foe'; ing to my opinion are Sansksitized forms of Gothic fiatha, 'feud', German fehde, are connect- pul. These so-called Sk. themes in a slightly ed with pag, is more than doubtful. Prof. Fr. different form have appeared already under Nos.
More assonances are sometimes of a striking nature, viz. a tadbhava of Sk. patni, 'a wife', is panni, and this for which I adduce another instance with regard to per certainly reminds the ear of pén, or pénu, a female.'