OF THE

AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY.

八

FOURTH VOLUME.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY

BY

GEORGE P. PUTNAM & Co. 10 PARK PLACE.

MDCCOLIV.

541

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by the

AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut.

CONTENTS

OF

FOURTH VOLUME.

ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY AND CABINET OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL
SOCIETY, Feb., 1853-July, 1854, ....

Page.

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i-xiv

LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, corrected
to July, 1854,

SELECT MINUTES OF MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY,

ART.

ART.

ART.

I-TATTUVA-KATTALEI, LAW OF THE TATTUVAM. A SYNOPSIS

OF THE MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE HINDUS, translated

from the Tamil, with Notes, by Rev. HENRY R. HOISINGTON,

Missionary of the American Board in Ceylon,

.....

II. SIVA-GNANA-POTHAM, INSTRUCTION IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF

GOD. A METAPHYSICAL AND THEOLOGICAL TREATISE, trans-

lated from the Tamil, with an Introduction and Notes, by

Rev. HENRY R. HOISINGTON, Missionary of the American

Board in Ceylon,

III-MULAMULI, OR THE BUDDHIST GENESIS OF EASTERN INDIA,

FROM THE SHAN, through the TALAING AND BURMAN, by

Rev. FRANCIS MASON, M. D., Missionary of the American

Baptist Missionary Union in Burma,

MISCELLANIES

XV

xxiii

1

81

103

I Orthography of Armenian and Turkish Proper Names, .

II. On the Malalengara,

119

122

Авт. IV.-SIVA-PIRAKASAM, LIGHT OF SIVAN, A METAPHYSICAL AND

THEOLOGICAL TREATISE, translated from the Tamil, with

Notes, by Rev. HENRY R. HOISINGTON, Missionary of the

American Board in Ceylon,

Page.

125

ART.

V.-ON THE HISTORY OF THE VEDIO TEXTS, by WILLIAM D.

WHITNEY,

245

ART.

VI. THE STATE AND PROSPECTS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN

INDIA, by Rev. DAVID O. ALLEN, D. D., Missionary of the

American Board in India,.

ART. VII-THE TALAING LANGUAGE, by Rev. FRANCIS MASON, M. D.,

Missionary of the American Baptist Missionary Union in

Burma,

263

277

ART. VIII.-ON THE KARENS, by Rev. E. B. CROSS, Missionary of the

American Baptist Missionary Union in Burma,

289

ART.

IX.--COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY OF THE SGAU AND Pwo Karen

DIALECTS, by Rev. NATHAN BROWN, Missionary of the Amer-

ican Baptist Missionary Union in Asam,

317

ART.

ART.

X-CHINESE LOCAL DIALECTS REDUCED TO WRITING, by Rev.

MOSES C. WHITE, Missionary of the Methodist Episcopal

Missionary Society at Fuhchau; to which is appended an

OUTLINE OF THE SYSTEM ADOPTED FOR ROMANIZING THE

DIALECT OF AMмOY, by Hon. CHARLES W. BRADLEY, late

Consul of the United States at Amoy,

327

XI-TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE

SULTAN OF MASKAT: the Arabic Text accompanied with a

Translation and Introduction by ALEXANDER I. COTHEAL,.. 341

ART. XII-NOTICE OF A LIFE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, translated

from the Syriac by Rev. Dr. JUSTIN PERKINS, Missionary of

the American Board among the Nestorians, with extracts

from the same, by THEODORE D. WOOLSEY, President of

Yale College,....

357

MISCELLANIES :

Page.

I. Translation of the Fermân granted by Sultán 'Abd-ul-Mejeed to

his Protestant Subjects,

443

444

II. The so-called Nestorian Monument of Singan-fu,...

III. Some Characteristics of the Shemitic and Japhetic Families of

Languages, applied to the Classification of the Languages of

1. Lepsius on the First Order of Egyptian Deities,....

457

VIII Letter from H. Lobdell, M.D., Missionary at Mosûl, respecting

some Recent Discoveries at Koyunjik, ...

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