On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c3.20

c3.20

To this specimen of M. Halévy’s scholarship and method may be added another, found in his remarks on *Kebuka* (N. O. É. I, p. 56), where he lays down the law to a native Pali commentator. “*Kebuka*, he informs us, is the name of a place belonging to *Seruma*; the idea of the commentator that it is the name of a river has not the slightest foundation.” And he then goes on to treat us to the ingenious conjecture that *Kebuka* is the Caucasus which, as he alleges, in Persian bears the name *Ḳabaḳ* or *Ḳabkh*, essentially corresponding to the Pali word. A Sanskritist who reads vs. 106 of the Jātaka, No. 327 (Fausböll, vol. III, p. 91):