Indian Antiquary Vol 60

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications

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ON THE MODERN INDO-ARYAN VERNACULARS.
. BY SIR GEORGE A. GRIERSON, O.M., K.C.I.E. [The following pages were originally intended to form a part of the Grundriss der IndoArischen Philologie und Altertumskunde. Their preparation was greatly delayed by the demands of the Linguistic Survey of India, and the progress made was so slow that, by the time I was free from the latter, I had been able to prepare only the earlier sections. I then found that reasons of health and age prohibited my going further with this difficult and complicated work, and, to my greut regret, I was compelled to ask the Editor of the Grundriss to release me from the lask. It has therefore been transferred to the competent hands of Professor R. L. Turner, of the University of London, and I have now no more to do with it.
The manuscript of the portion already written by me, however, still remains in my hands. It consists of two Introductory Chapters and of the greater part of the section dealing with Phone. tics. These represent a considerable amount of labour, and as so far as they go, they are complete in themselves, they perhaps contain information not hitherto readily available. Friends who have examined the manuscript have been kind enough to urge me to publish it. I hesitated, be. cause I was conscious of its fragmentary character, and could feel no certainty of being able to complete it even as a fragment of the larger work originally contemplated. But Sir Richard Temple has honoured me by offering to print what I have written as a supplement to the Indian Antiquary, so I have abandoned my hesitation and offer it in the hope that my fellow students of Indian languages may now and then find in it something of use. It is necessary to explain that the first two chapters have already appeared in a preliminary form in volume I of the Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies (1918-19). These have now been brought up to date, and are here reprinted with the necessary corrections.)
List of Abbreviations.
List of A A.=Assamese.
AR =Asiatio Researches. A. Dioy.=Hema Kosha or an Etymological Aš.=Axkund Käfir.
Dictionary of the Assamose Language. Ag. Gr.=The Language of the Ashkun Käfirs. By Hemchandra Barua. Published under
By G. Morgenstierne. In Norsk Tidsskrift the authority of the Assam Administra for Sprogvidenskap. II (1929), 192 ff. tion, 1900.
Av.=Avesta. A. Dioy. Br.=A Dictionary in Assamese and English. Compiled by M. Bronson. Sib
Aw.=Awadhi=EH. (Aw.). sägar, 1867.
B.=Bihári. A. Gr.=Grammatical Notes on the Assamese B. Gr.=Seven Grammars of the Dialects and
Language. By N. Brown. . Third edition. Sub-Dialects of the Bihari Language. By Nowgong, 1893.
G. A. Grierson. Eight volumes. Calcutta, abl. =ablative.
1883-1887. acc. =accusative.
B. (Bh.)=Bhojpuri. ag.=agentive, or case of the agent.
B. (Mg.)=Magahi. AJP = American Journal of Philology. AMg. Ap.=Ardhamāgadha Apabhramsa.
B. (Mth.)=Maithili. AMg. Pr. = Ardhamăgadhi Prakrit = Pr. B. (Mth.) Gr.=An Introduction to the Maithili (AMg.).
Dialect of the Bihiri Language as spoken in Ap.=Apabbramsa.
North Bihār. By G. A. Grierson. Second Ap. Mat.=Materialen zur Kenntnis des Apa
edition. Calcutta, 1909. bhraméa. Ein Nachtrag zur Grammatik B. (Mth.) Dioy.=Chrestomathy and Vocabuder Prākrit.Sprachen. Von R. Pischel, lary, boing Part II of the first edition of Berlin, 1902.
B. (Mth.) Gr. Calcutta, 1882. Ar,=Arabic.
Bg. =Bengali