Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c4.14

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[^1): That the Hebrew *tuki* is the Tamiḷ *tōgai* seems to be determined. The identification is finally due to Dr. Caldwell ("Comparative Grammar" p. 66) and is in every way satisfactory. The remaining foreign terms in the same Hebrew passage appear however to have not been fairly considered as yet, and all proposed identifications of "almug" or "algum" would present the greatest difficulties. What has been proposed is to be found in Profr. Max Müller's "Lectures on the Science of Language" I. pp. 224-5. The word Tukiim has been last discussed by M. Vinson in Hovelacque's "Revue de Linguistique" VI. fasc. 2, very fully. That it cannot be derived from *çikhin*, the ō shows. [^2): On the Empire of Darius see Menant "Les Achéménides" pp. 167-9. Kossowicz ("Inscriptiones Palæo-Persicæ Achæmenidarum" pp. 72-3 and 76-7.) translates the passages as follows: (Inscription of Persepolis) "**2.** Edict Darius rex: Voluntate Auramasdae hae *sunt* provinciæ, quas ego tenui cum isto Persiae populo .... mihique tributum afferebant: Susiana .... India" etc. (Inscription of Naksh-i-Rustam) 3. Edict Darius rex: "Hae *sunt* provinciæ quas ego cepi extra a Persia (extra Persiam). Ego eas meae ditionis feci, mihi tributum afferebant quodque eis a me edicebatur hoc obsequentissime faciebant, lex quae mea est, haec *ab iis* observabatur: Media . . . . . Indi" etc. The original Persian word is 'Hi(n)dus'. [^3): Chabas "Etudes sur l'antiquité historique" p. 94. Thothmes iii. (? 1500 B. C.) penetrated to 'the country of elephants', but by 2500 B. C. there was regular intercourse with S. Arabia. (Brugsch "Histoire d' Égypte" I. p. 81.) [^4): La Legende de Semiramis, par F. Lenormant (1872). p. 11 etc. [^5): Max Müller, Sanskrit Grammar (2nd edition) p. 3.