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INDEX
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at PindyA near Mêktilà, 11; their method
of calculating bullion weights ................... 8 Shikótár, a spirit........................................... 241 Siam, computation of British currency in
rural, 19:-report on trade of, in 1678, 8:
version of British coinage ............... Siamese weights, 1 ff.: - Bowring on, 4: -
comparative Burmese and Siamese bullion, 14.; common origin with ordinary ancient Indian scale, 6: Crawfurd on, 6: derived perhaps from Cambodian, or vice versd, +: - French authorities on, 5: - general table of, 6; - Hamilton, Alex., on, 7 - La Loubère on, 5:- Malcom on, 6: - same as Burinese, 3- relation be. tween, and other Far Eastern scales, 5:
Stevens on, 7:- Vanschouten on ...... 5 Sibsågar Någas: - terms for metals, 214:
- calculation of money .......................... 214 Sikshasamuchchaya, the, book-notice of ...... 84 Singanakadi ............................................ 250 Singapore and Malacca, weights at ......... 45, 48 Singhana, king, of Devagiri.................... 250 f. Singpho (Assamese) = Kachin (Burmese),
197: - terms for currency and metals com
pared with Kachin.................................. 200 sling or sleng ............................................. 16 Soutbern India, notes on............................ 168
Badaga of the E. Nilgiri Hills.............. Black Jews at Cochin ........................... Kamkars of the Tinnevelly district .......
Malsers of the Anamala Hills ............. Spirit basis of belief and custom. notes on, 22 ff., 104 ff., 137 ff., 153 ff., 221 ff., 287 ff., 270 ff. : - exorcists, 237 ff.; Asri, Sathvai, Navli, Vêtål, 239; Hindu procedure different from Musalman, 238; Konkan, procedure of Hindu cxorcists in the, 239; Vêtal, Hêdali and Bapdev, 210; methods adopted to drive out sprits in N. Känara, 270; Panens of Malabar, 271; Perak in Malay penirisular, case there, 273 ; Umêtha, procedure there, 240: - how spirits are kept off, 223 : - spirit-entries, 139 ff., ear, 159, why pierced ; 159, foot, 158, hair, 153; reasons why it plays so noticeable a part in early beliefs and rites, 153, hand, 156, Lead, 139, mouth, 155, nose, 160, why bored; 160, sneezing, 155, yawning, 156:- spirit hnunts, 104 ff., boundaries, 105, caverns, 110, deserts and waste places, 110, empty houses, 111, funeral places, 104, groves, 111, hearths, 111, hills, 111, house-roofs, 111, looking-glass, 112, river-banks and rea-shores, 137, roads, especially cross-roads, stone, 106; bored stones, 108, trees, 109, un
clean places, 137, water or pot-holes, 137:spirit-possession, 137 ff.; all people are at all times liable in the Dakban, Gujarat, and Konkan, 138; effects of spirit-possession :sick ness or disease, barrenness, loss of favour or affection, loss in business, general misfortune, $21;cured by cbarm, 222; fear is the great cause why spectres are seen, 138 ; voluntary and involuntary seizures, 137:-spirit-seasons, 161 ff.; auspicious events, 162; Ganpati invoked, 163; all beginnings are special spirit-times, 163; eating, 161; new-moon and full-moon days, 164; times of meeting and bargain, 162: - spirits, features, character, and mode of liv. ing of, 22 ff., lege turned back or crooked, 22, hair loose, 22, hair on end, 22, general character is evil, 22, good-will of, belief in complete on partial -is widespread, 22, Brownie, 22, connection of, with men, 23, character of, man's view of, always
affocted by development and degradation... 24 Sringeri Establishment............ Stevens, on weights at Acheen, 42; at Ma
lacca, 42; on Siamese weights................ 7 Stupa, Jaina, at Mathura, a legend of the,
49 ff. ; built by the gods ........................ 49 Sulo Archipelago, weights in 1814 in the. ...... 44 svastika, soine remarks on the, 196; Jains call
it sdthis and believe it to be figure of Sid.
dha, 196 ; Buddhist and Hindu doctrines... 196 gwanpan or Chinese abacus, 19; improvised
out of British coins, 19, 21; Burmese method ........... ....................
............... 19 Swat languages, Bühler on some.............. 378 ff.
Tabataba, 'Ali B. 'Aziz-Ullah, author of the
Burhan i Ma,árir ................. tael, Malayan compared with Chinese ....... Tdi ........................
............... 8 Talaings: - alphabet, language, and writing,
150f.:--authorities for study of, 150:-silver money scale, 152; terms for brass, copper, gold, iron, lead, silver, tin, 153 ; terms for
parts of the rupee and tickal ................... 152 Talaing Vocabulary, Haswell's, on kyaik ... 8+ Taungus ................................................ 10 Taw Sein Ko's ed. of the Mahdjánaka Jataka 117 Tarkarat-ul-Mulúk, the ........................ 318 ff. Telinga = Telugu ........... ..................... 244 Tellicherry, weights ................................. 8 Telugu literature, discursive remarks on the Augustan age of, 244 ff., 275 ff., 295 ff., 322 ff.
Achyutadevaraya .......... ............... 276 Achyutara ya ...............
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