The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c3.4

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Vowels have values as in Italian; except the short *a*, which is pronounced like *u* in *but*, when with stress, and like *A* in *America*, when without stress. The consonants are to be pronounced as in English; and *ch*, consequently, is represented in French by *tch*, and in German by *tsch*; similarly, *j* is equivalent to the French *dj* and the German *dsch*. The international symbol *c* for the English *ch*, as in *church*, which has been adopted by the Asiatic Societies, may have some advantages in purely technical publications; but its use results in such *monstra horrenda* as *Cac* for *Chach*, and is unsuitable in a work intended primarily for English and Indian readers.