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Indian Studies London INDIAN STUDIES LONDON . HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERbl'l'Y PRESS 0 INDIAN STUDIES Jn l,onor of Charles Rockwell Lanman HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambrrbgt, Jttassa:cbusttts 1929 COPYRI , 19119 ,,. BY THE PRESIDENT FELLOWS_,., {ilf HARVARD COLLEGE PRINTED AT THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASS , U S A THESE STUDIES, THE WORK OF COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS IN MANY LANDS, ARE OFFERED IN GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION TO ~barlt~l\odt\tltll 1.anman CONTENTS ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY AUTHORS PAGE DINES ANDER',EN 81 Miscellanea Pahca SHRIPAD Km•mNA IlELVALKAR 187 Srngsnc Eldborat10n m Sakuntala, Act III MAURICE BLOOMFIELD 7 D1mmutive Pronoun~ m the Native &rarumars .J WALTER EUGENE CLARK 217 Hmdu-.\rah1c N umerah, .J CAROLINE A FOLEY RHYS DAVIDS 103 ' ? The Well-TO EY /FRANKLIN EDGERTON Notes on Jama MahJ.rJ.~tri J CARLO FORMH Ill 75 On the Real l\leanmg uf the Dialogue beh~een l aJndvalkya and Ma1treyI KARL FRIEDRICH G.M,DNER 69 Das V 1pii.ndm1m R1gveda Sm GEOIWE AuRAHAM GRIERSON 243 The Birth of Lorik EDWARD WAsttnvnN HoPKJ~S 113 Buddlust1c Myst1usm . J i/A VALENTINE "ILLIAMS JACKSON 255 Three ln<lo-lramdn Notes HERMANN JACOBI 145 Mimiimsii und Va1ses1ka JULIUS JOLLY 237 Ueber die Spatere Entw1cklu11gdes lnd1schen Staatsrechts ARTHUR BERRIEI>ALE KEITH 167 Dan<,lmand Bhiimaha viii Contents TAIKEN KIMURA 89 The Date of Vasubandhu seen from the Abh1dharma-Ko§a STEN KoNow 58 Remarks on a Kharosthr lnscr1ption from the Kurram Valley v SYLVAIN LEVI 85 L'lnscr1ption de Mahliniiman a Bodh-Gaya PAUL MASSON-OURSEL 141 L' Autonom1e Spmtuelle selon la Pensee lnd1enne ANTOINE MEILLET 8 La Flex1on Panthah en Ved1que, et les Nommat1fs en -eadu Latin GENMYO ONO 93 The Date of Vasubandhu seen from the History of Buddh1st1c Philosophy Louis DE LA VALLEE PoussIN 135 Extase et Speculation EDWARD JAME~ RAPSON 49 The Date of the Amohmi Votive Tablet of Mathurii ARTHUR WILLIAM RYDER How to Live Happily on N othmg a Year JYAN TAKAKUSP 79 The Date of Vasubandhu, the Great Buddh1:,t Plulosopher FREDERICK '\V1LLIAM THOMA~ 198 A Ramiiyana Story m Tibetan from Chme~e Turkei,tan HAKPJU U1 95 Ma1treya as an H1stor1cal Personage JAMES HAUGHTON '\VooDs 187 Integrat10n of Consciousness m Buddhism Cont,ents IX GROUPED BY SUBJECTS LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR La Flexion Panthah en Vedique et les Nominatifs en -es du Latin 3 ANTOINE MEILLET. Diminutive Pronouns in Jama Sanskrit 7 MAURICE BLOOMFIELD - Notes on Jama Maharar;,tri 27 FRANKLIN EDGERTON Miscellanea Pahca 31 DINES ANDEUSEN INSCRIPTION<; L'Inscr1ption de Mahanaman a Bodh-Gaya 35 SYLVAIN Livi The Date of the Amohmi Votive Tablet of Mathurii 49 EDWAUD JAMES RAPSON Remark!> on a Kharo.,thi Inscription from the Kurram Valley 53 STE?. KONOW YEDA Das Viplinam im Rigveda 69 KARL FRIEDRICH GELDNER On the Real Meanmg of the Dialogue between Yajnavalkya and Mmtreyi 75 CARLO FonMICHI BUDDHISM The Date of Vasubandhu, the Great Buddhist Philosopher 79 Jy AN TAKAKUSU The Date of Va.,ubandhu seen from the Abh1dharma-Kosa 89 'l'AIKEN KnrnUA The Date of Vasubanrlhu seen from the History of Buddhistic Phi- losophy 93 GENM\O ONO Maitreya as an H1stor1cal Personage 95 liAK.u1u U1 The Well -TO EY lOS CAROLINE A FOLEY RHYS DAVIDS x Contents Buddh1sttc Mysticism 118 EDWARD w ASHBURN HOPKINS Extase et Speculation 185 Louis DE LA VALLEE PoussrN Integration of Consc10usness m Buddh1,;m 187 JAMES HAUGHTON Woons COMPARATIVE RELIGION L'Autonom1e Spmtuelle selon la Pensee Indienne 141 p A UL MAS80N-0UR'IEL CLASSICAL PHILOi>OPHY Mimiimsii und Vaises1ka 145 HERMANN JACOBI CLASSICAL POETRY Dandm and Bhamaha 167 ARTHUR IlERRIEDALE KEITH I, ,,, Srnganc Elahorat10n rn .:,akuntala, Act III 187 SHRIPAD Km-.HNA BEuALK-\R A Ramayana Story m Tibetan from Chmese Turkestan 193 FREDERICK \YrLLIAM Tno\HS How to Live Happily on N othmg a Year 213 ARTHUR WILLIAM RYDER l\IATHEl\lA TICS Hmdu-Arab1c Numerals ~17 wALTER EUGENE CLA!tK LAW Ueber die Spatere Entwicklung des lndt'>chen Staatsrechts 237 JULIUS JOLLY VERNACULAR The Birth of Lonk Sm GEORGE ABRAHAM GRrERbON lNDO-lRANIAN Three lndo-Iraman Notes A VALENTINE \V1LLIAMS JACKSON INDIAN STUDIES LA FLEXION DE PANTHAII EN VEDIQUE, ET LES NOMINATIFS EN -ES DU LATlN BY ANTOINE MEILLET L suffit de se reportc-r a la deuxi<'me edition du Handbuch der latei­ I nzschen Laut-und Formenlehrede M. Sommer, pp 371 et smv , pour c-onstater que la qut'1,bon de l'or1gme des nominabfs lahns en -es, du type de sedes, n'c>st pas resolue A rapprocher le type latm uolpes du ht liipe, comme l'a fait M. W Schulze, on ne gagne r1en le type htuamen eio>tun ancien type en -ic-. ht zemc repond a v sl :emlJa Au !'.'>Urplusle baltique a -e et non -es. Et, s1 l'on rnpproche fide.'Ide ~cdcs,comme l'a fa1t Brugmann, on ne comprend pas ce qm peut Hre exphqu(, par la sedes, sedis et .fides, fidei ont des flexions entierenwnt d1stmcte!,, Le vocalu,me rnontrt' que scdes n'a m'n a faire av(•c gr too5,ni moles avec molestus Du reste aucune forme de nommabf <le theme en -s­ tels que io>eraientshies et moles n 'ex1stt• dans aucune langue indo­ europrenne, It' latm lui-rneme ne connait que le type honos Quant a pubes, nen n'auton!,,e £i, y chercher un th&me en -es- pilbcr a un ancwn r, ti·mom pubertiis L'hypothese que l\I Sommer met m pn•n11e1ehgne, a !'.'iavotrun amcwn nommat1f en -£~(,)sde thc\me en -t- !'.'iera1tplaus1blC' 1\ila1sM. Somnwr ne s1gnak•. hors du latm, nen de comparable Or, pour l'exphcahon d\nw forme, ce qm nnporte avant tout, c'est de trouver une forme qm Im c-orre-,pon<le II y a en mdo-uanien un nom dont la flexion rappellt' le type scdes. C'est celm dont, en vedique. le nommatif singuher est pti.nthah, l'ac­ cusatif smguher panthiim. Ie nommabf plunel panthiih - ]'instrumental plurwl pathfbhih, le locabf pluriel pathirn - le gembf-ahlahf singuher pathah, l'mstrumental singuher patha, l'accusahf plunel pathti.h,le ge­ mtif plunel pathdm Il n'y a pas a tenir compte des formes en -n­ de l' Atharvave<la le nonunabf plunel panthdnah qm se trouve sept fois, est une format10n analogique grace a laquelle eta1t ev1tee la con­ fusion avec le singuher panthah, a l'accusatu Slnguher,ou aucune con­ fusion n'ava1t heu, !'innovation n'a pas prevalu panthanam se lit une seule fo1s contre 19 pantham (snr tous ces fa1ts, v. la precieuse etude de M. Lanman, Noun-inflection in the r eda, pp 441 et 470). Les monu­ ments iraniens confinnent le caractere indo-iranien des formes vediques: 4 Antoine M eillet l'Avesta a panta au nominat1f singulier, pantqm a l'accusatif et pa0qm au genitif pluriel, pa06 au gembf srngulier et a l'accusatif pluriel; la fonne en -i- est attestee mdirectement par l'accusatif singulier paOim du v1eux-perse, qui montre une normalisation de la flexion dans le parler deJa tres evolue qu'est le perse des inscriptions achemenides; d'autre part, on voit, par un nominatif pa.id, par un accusatif pa0qm des giithii, que la flex10n fortement anomale du mot s'est alteree de bonne heure en iramen L'exemple de pdnthiih est umque en indo-1ranien Carved. rruinthiih, dont on n'a la flex1on que parbcllement, apparbent a une racine dis­ syllab1que, I' -ii- a chance d'appartenir a la racine, et le cas est, par suite, d1ff{>rentde celm de panthiih Hors de l'rndo-1ramen, une flex10n du nom du " chemin " pareille a celle de ved panthah n'est pas attestee. En slave et en baltique, l'his­ to1re commence trop tard pour qu'une flcxion auss1 archa1que smt con­ servee Toutefo1s, le contra&te de v sl pQtif" chemin " et de v pruss. pintis " chemin " montre que le JCU du vocahsme radical observe <lans vfd. panthiih, pathah, pathisu a ex1ste clans le domame slave et baltique. On entrev01t par Ii\ que la fle-x10nconnue par l'mdo-iramen y a existe auss1. - Gr. 1ra.rns"chemin "et 1rovros"mer" sont des themes dfr1ves par lesquels on aurait evitc le v1eux nom anomal du " chemin " La parentc avec skr pdnthah, etc , e&t du reste mcertame -L'ann. hun "chemin" n'enseigne rien -Quant a lat pons, dont le sens ne con­ corde pas exactement avec celui de !-ikr p<inthiihet de v sl. pQtt, et dont par smte le rapprochement est conteste (L Havet a toujours soup<_;-onne,a tort ou a raison, qu'un rapprochement avec le groupe de pendo pendeo, ou le -d- est seconda1re, rendra1t compte du mot), la fiex1on est la meme que celle de mons et de mens, et 11n'y a, en tout cas, rien a en tirer 1ci - Le mot n'est clairement atteste que dans la parbe orientale de l'indo-europeen en indo-iranien, armemen, slave et bal­ t1que. Deux traits caracterisent le type latrn a nominatif en -es-.Le premier est que des fonnes en -i- s'y 1uxtaposent a des fonnes de la flexion con­ sonan tique et au nommabf en-es-· le mot uates, uiitem a ungembf plur1el uiitum (a cote de uiitium), tout comme le vedique a pdnthah, panthiim, ma1&pathdm, pathisu. Et la formc en -i- est attestce par un nominabf uiitis chez Plaute et par la flexion reguliere en -i- de 1rl.faith. - En face de ,,edes, sedem, le genitif pluriel est sedum. - La concordance du type latin avec le type mdo-iranien de skr. panthiih est complete.
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