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_CONTENTS OF VOL. II._

SECTION III.--On the Aborigines of North-Eastern India. Comparative Vocabulary of the Tibetan, Bódó, and Gáró Tongues.

SECTION IV.--Aborigines of the North-Eastern Frontier.

SECTION V.--Aborigines of the Eastern Frontier.

SECTION VI.--The Indo-Chinese Borderers, and their connection with the Himalayans and Tibetans. Comparative Vocabulary of Indo-Chinese Borderers in Arakan. Comparative Vocabulary of Indo-Chinese Borderers in Tenasserim.

SECTION VII.--The Mongolian Affinities of the Caucasians.--Comparison and Analysis of Caucasian and Mongolian Words.

SECTION VIII.--Physical Type of Tibetans.

SECTION IX.--The Aborigines of Central India.--Comparative Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Languages of Central India.--Aborigines of the Eastern Ghats.--Vocabulary of some of the Dialects of the Hill and Wandering Tribes in the Northern Sircars.--Aborigines of the Nilgiris, with Remarks on their Affinities.--Supplement to the Nilgirian Vocabularies.--The Aborigines of Southern India and Ceylon.

SECTION X.--Route of Nepalese Mission to Pekin, with Remarks on the Water-Shed and Plateau of Tibet.

SECTION XI.--Route from Káthmándú, the Capital of Nepâl, to Darjeeling in Sikim.--Memorandum relative to the Seven Cosis of Nepâl.

SECTION XII.--Some Accounts of the Systems of Law and Police as recognised in the State of Nepâl.

SECTION XIII.--The Native Method of making the Paper denominated Hindustan, Népálese.

SECTION XIV.--Pre-eminence of the Vernaculars; or, the Anglicists Answered; Being Letters on the Education of the People of India.

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THE LIFE OR LEGEND OF GAUDAMA,

THE BUDDHA OF THE BURMESE. With Annotations.

The Ways to Neibban, and Notice on the Phongyies or Burmese Monks.

BY THE RIGHT REV. P. BIGANDET,

Bishop of Ramatha, Vicar-Apostolic of Ava and Pegu.

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CHINESE BUDDHISM.

A VOLUME OF SKETCHES, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL.

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LINGUISTIC AND ORIENTAL ESSAYS.

WRITTEN FROM THE YEAR 1846 TO 1878.

BY ROBERT NEEDHAM CUST,

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BUDDHIST BIRTH STORIES; or, Jataka Tales.

The Oldest Collection of Folk-lore Extant:

BEING THE JATAKATTHAVANNANA,

For the first time Edited in the original Pali.

BY V. FAUSBOLL;

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Translation. Volume I.

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