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 ■Tascast. 1 NOTES ON HINDU CHROXO. 13 espeeiaUy Briihtuuii*. " .i.-ison says that raxnifltiifvui**ii«lflHav«bBU«ttlKo roLioii ■■ which would 6 trengtheu his triWf s but I have nnl root with any I md indeed till* CttMtOtl) appear* to IlKVU ! . ,■ nr lftftS Wal. I thiuk Mr. Fergusaou i* mistaken in impposing th-.i? tlun tiny earthenware suggested to th<t natives the Idea thai I i to a me of pigmies, but that it arose, a* i always gathered froui the native*, from tbo holes or aportnraa so geuemlly oeonrring: in the slabs at out- Ohd of the structures. Mid arc regarded iw doora or entrances I- popularly called house*, mire* liave no idea of their being sepulchre*.* In the octtotnpiuijing 1 « marked i M example* of lb ft miniat ura mi n •, of the actual sixes af thu originals. I. -» and & ara formed or a rather dark-coloured day, and were found placed one upon tbo other, the mid- cltu Ttt &* indwd beads figured below ; these are of red carnation, with aroatni'iitul banda and spots scratched apOO th«m in white; tliL-y are bored, too, showing tt mira-buildum understood hnw tar work thc> .-a, and limy are i' lor to car- nidiau bcuds found in English l*ftrrows, Xo, 4 is formed of ml clay with particles or i!ii rraixed, and Li rappoTtod on three shor Korf. 5, o dalinaatO a ?wj afaaiacteriitic or a tall urn or jar. ■tamdiQf -hrcc, rand itnes fonr abort rm owan nob only m Caorg, but where v< na arc found throughout Southern hidiu- I b*l m» v_lv difcuuU'iuI'LMi it in this Kuituhatar and TbiMtt »i*ns vary from one tci three foot. aro made of rod day, very strong and el- l| and usually contain fragments of bone* I on which they stand ptvdout. a it" ob- u-.< i'n hi-. ta ih.il ha* quite ■ 'Vom i. Htndn poftkarji no farna 1 know, alt i and pota used to-dayt being rounrf- 4 j'tiul>JartomB to steady. l'> pots Oj ttough in the cairns*, but with them Q' (bund lergn quantities '.hen stai on which t» plana tkn.m t hut no suuh devices ar< BOW, T. with its two e nriuu* spou I to intimate ' m ' AM ahapa was known to the people who made it ; and No, tf may bo remarked a* presenting a- shape very eimilar iCQfl pottery in the Indian UtL ■ tlu» iiTii^ioiTiT qity Of iSrilimaiiAljad. in Sitidh, '1 ; uiii- bCOftUSOt With tha exception •' iwttcry torn thy in tomb*, fchu from Hnihm •W.iib^l, to which tbeilate A.n. 7hintori -u pottery. Amongst the ttribman l are urns the earoo in ubapo with figures 5, 5 in Lbo plaUv but without the legs, and itaiidinjj instead ou a Hit-riuiiuetj boitom, liko l»asin ; and tbero arc small vases with tbo large halves just liko%nrod,hul with nnrrowor necks and mouth*. Two or threo small vases jingbi liigkloop-iumdles manifost i wp i n (irreuk itiflnrncn widttty tvniovod Tram any Hindu fasbi'- in HINDU iQBAHS. BY ti. II I'AMAXT, DJ £'L"IL- I .i r^uukriluft b M ileal man ii h the chile U OAWI BSpNOMd by words, hut, ojitiniry t,^ the usage of the M nhsmrnin hum, umangst CAoh letter has* ft Ifacfid value, lbo llindiia usually mqfhf a scpamte word to represent I hough a word may oecaBioually sot two figuree, Thu date must* as n rule, tjo rend fnnn right to lefi. In a data I fuund on a lotnple ftt Bordhou Iteugjiur, the wotanoa represeti' Urfa i« y«ea-«J««ai(o-m#a.i^'«Nii, wbhil « A ww tin.*? mpirtios Uip «• u *J* < L h J J * " *** rnuml la * preoctliMit yMjMr. vol ill it- - < • -•* (Sake, aa shown by another «spr ■nn) ; here A> ; ntia = G, mil being tmtilhv, u rrvnxi, pungent; /f 1 ' amid, sanr rton = 3, it is a synonyi- ho thin I naksbatra; and fonryngas. T h a wi>rd« em ployed to represent num her umully taken from the Hindu nyrtem of | sophy, mythology. mmonly aatro or ftstrelojfy (j and in ninny cases the t Fn mom putt df Wmhwhti I wJia n«*»t» (nr bn
 * . arc ftliil in a» with iliuVt £««t or «npport».-